breaths, calm down, and then take my day a minute at a time trying to scrounge up all the courage I could get. Then when I made it through that day I would feel much better about myself and I would be able to face the next day with much less difficulty, and every day got easier. Making new friends everywhere I went took a lot of courage too. Whenever someone has to walk up to another whom they don’t know and lay their heart out on the line, it takes a lot of courage. For me walking up to someone and asking them to “be my friend,” for lack of a better phrase, was like walking up to that cute guy in math class and asking him out on a date, or trying to get his number. It scared me more than anything in the world and I was way to shy to do it. It takes a lot of courage to stop yourself from saying, “forget it, I don’t want friends, it’s not worth it.” This was one of my most feared things to do, since I am one of those people who needs other people, but is also horribly shy. I had to learn to get outgoing, and put my heart on the line. I also learned that when you get hurt just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again, because you can’t loose every time. It’s not only the getting there part that takes courage. It takes courage to tell your friends that you have learned to love that you have to leave them. When you are a child, it is most likely in your life that you will never see that person in your life again. I learned that fact by the time we were on our fourth move. Therefore it was always very hard for me to say goodbye to people because they thought that they would still get to see me all the time, and I knew what was really going to happen. Children don’t have the luxury of picking up the phone whenever they want to call long distance or to jump in the car and drive to go visit friends in another state. It was very hard to leave a place that you h...
