Beginning of Ninth Grade, Mr. Shoemaker

The truth is, mental illness does ruin a lot of things. Friendships, job opportunities, self-esteem. There's this false idea that you can live with it happily and be proud of who you are. That sense of pride, it doesn't exist when there isn't anyone around you who understands just how foolish you do when there's a day of awareness for something you never asked for. Depression isn't a choice, and no amount of medication can fix it permanently, so why this society allows us to believe so, is just more proof of the lies they feed us. In this real journey, a girl, Arya begins a lifetime of finding herself in a matter of mere months. The loss overwhelms any gain and for the first time, you can gaze into the life of a true and tragic story. This isn't a romance, and whether or not there is a happy ending...who knows?