There's no winning arguments with your parents

If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige.

Julie always tried to stand beside me, or talk to me, or in some other way mortify me.

Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.

All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

...and I realized that Garrett was right about one thing- I had flipped. Completely.