Sometimes I try to pinpoint exactly when everything started to change. It happened so fast. Faster than I could blink. One moment, I'm a carefree person living a happy life. The next, I'm crying myself to sleep every night. Everything I thought I knew, vanished. Gone. I used to come home from school, get all my homework done in 20 minutes or less, eat a granola bar, and watch my favorite TV show until it was time for bed. Now, I can immediately recognize the smell of weed and I know a drunk text when I see one. When did we all grow up? We're all just kids. It doesn't have to be like this. We're supposed to be the good ones. The ones that manage to get out of high school clean and sober, having been able to avoid all of the parties and scary things that taunted us with the ability to escape the pain. It doesn't have to be like this.