Life can leave you vulnerable when you least expect it—it can leave you lost with nowhere to turn. Life can bring you down hard, and my god did I fall. At war with my thoughts and feelings, I drank away my demons because I was too scared to voice them. I was living a lie, yet the one I craved I didn’t know how to grasp. Afraid, I ran in the direction of a freedom that never came. Then I saw him, and he changed everything. He changed me.