This is pretty cool...

...not sure if I wrote it when I was 16 or 17. I think it's pretty clever.

"My faith is as thick as rope and as strong as fishing wire, my hope is as thin as paper and frays like hemp, My pain however pierces my heart and is as sharp as barbed wire. But my love for everything is as pure as the whitest of clouds, It is easily corrupt as storm clouds turned a dark shade of gray. My trust holds as a palm tree in the wind, it holds but waves to and fro and breaks at the right gust. I am ready to let them in, cure my taffy stuck tongue and make me as confident as a drunk girl because I want to dance as though I was high. But you must be warned, I can make you hit rock bottom like a stone over a cliff, and if they let me have my way, I'll tear them apart with my judgments that come quicker than an ocean wave. I act as I am and as my thoughts are made. I am Lauren."

Going through...

...hella stuff from high school. Mostly letters and journals and poems, while listening to The Used...

It's crazy how depressed I was over SO many boys. So dumb! I'd listen to The Used and cry and thought it consoled me. Now I'm listening to it and feel so sad cause I remember how unhappy I was.

It blows my mind how much time has passed and it feels like no time at all. I feel like high school was just yesterday, and now here I am preparing to seal the deal with someone who never makes me cry. It's so crazy. I was so scared of being alone, yet finding someone really was just around the corner. I feel so odd right now.