Cigarettes & Strawberries - A Memoir

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I recognize that this so called "memoir" isn't written the greatest. Some parts seem random, out of place, tonally different. But to understand this, to fully grasp what I'm trying to do here, you have to realize that life is a many changing thing.

Every moment I am something new, realer than I was before. As I grow, this memoir grows with me, and you can feel who I was and what I've become. I hope that by reading this you can take a piece of who I have been and use the wisdom of my darker moments in your own.

In this moment, I am sure. I am sound in who I am, and look forward to what I become. Yet I know, I will fall back into places like I've been before, and my tune may well drastically change. But these moments we can't be scared of, we must push forward with indurance and resilience. We have been here before to some degree, and we will walk out of this ever sure of who we are and what we're capable of.

Our challenges reveal ourselves to us, and we can start building up. We can see our foundation and rise above it greatly.

I know this sounds preachy, but by all means I am simply relaying my thoughts. I just hope that someone that reads this finds something that could help them. Give them their own hope.

At the end of the day, I'm a changed person now, no matter what hardships brought me to this space in time.