At the age of 11 I had gotten involved in kart racing with my family. In this, I met a girl that was a sister of a fellow racer. She seemed to like me, and I really wanted to ask her out when I worked up the courage. At the age of 13 I had a crash on the track that almost took my life completely. I had lost most of my mouth and was in ICU, and I took months to recover to be able to be normal again. The hardest part was looking in the mirror for the first time and having a somewhat different face. I had become extremely self conscious after plastic surgery, and didn’t want the girl I liked to ever see me. I spoke with her on the phone, and turned her down shamefully months after the accident.

Returning to the same school I had known ended in disaster, when the school found out about the missing pieces in my mouth, I was laughed at by some classmates and couldn’t stand girls to look at me. I left the school for a new one, and in my new school I fell into blind love with a girl that I liked the first time I saw her. I ended up taking her to the homecoming dinner and party. At the party she had left me to be with another guy.

After the end of that school year, I left and went on to do home schooling. At the age of 16 I started working and neglected my studies till I stopped doing them all together. Working full time and now surrounded by people from all different walks of life. I ended up in a life of drugs and alcohol which I had never known. I was happy and living carefree without regard for anyone else but myself. I had constantly tried for girls I met at parties, but always got made fun of and harassed.

I had come to a realization one day, that I was no longer who I wanted to be and quickly became reclusive and stopped hanging out with anybody, and challenged myself to learn computers by working for a company that taught me everything they knew, which after learning all I could, it landed me a job that I currently have through a slight chance of a person I met one day. I became increasingly lonely, and was seeking love online. I ended up flying a girl out I had met online. When she arrived she was not the girl I had seen in the pictures, and ended up with a 1 week nightmare that left me saying I never want a girl friend. Shortly after however, the girl of my dreams found me, and came into my life. Who I had become was exactly who she wanted. We quickly fell in love, and if one event had been different in my life, I would not be where I am today.