What Young And Afraid Does to You

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I was young once. I still am. But I was afraid once, of life. Afraid to play with fire, and afraid of looking ire.

As the pandemic hit in 2020, I was in high school. I was a freshman, but felt like a veteran. Things were going much better than I had expected and I didn’t want to stop. But I had to.

I wasn’t ready for the world to change overnight. I wasn’t ready to grab my stuff…