Defining Moments
These are those moments that aren’t that significant at the time, but send you down a rabbit hole of something a hell of a lot bigger. My friend Janine brought me an acting class from one of those daily deal websites, and I was forced to define one of these moments. We were tested to act out something in your life that you wished you did differently, and it brought me back to primary school in Collingwood, Goldenbay. I was “friends” with a group of girls that weren’t all that nice. Everyone had their turn of being on the outside, but it seemed to be me and another girl, Amelia, that used to get picked on more than the others. I used to live in fear of getting on the school bus because I didn’t know whether my “friends” would speak to me or not. The days that I was on the outside were the loneliest days of my life, and I used to spend lunch times in the solitary confinement of the bathroom, or searching through the lost property because I couldn’t handle the shame of sitting by myself....