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would mess things up quickly or unnecessarily
overreact to something. We are all dumb that way when we are
young.
    As the tenth grade approached, he
found a group of friends that he would keep for a couple of years.
They weren’t exactly the best friends that he could be with, but
they were much better than the people in the “popular” crowd, who
left him out of everything outside from sitting at their
table.
    In both of the
groups that he was with, he had never been pressured to smoke,
drink, or go to parties—he had never been asked to. Although, he
was expecting to experience it as a teenager because that’s what
cultural media tells us: high school is full of people trying to
fit in by whatever means necessary. Andrew didn’t care as much now
about fitting in. He was becoming much more aware, both about his
surroundings and about himself. No more sitting in a room with
students that had social problems and mental problems while he
thought to himself, I don’t belong here.
I’m not like these guys.
    Everything was evening out, but then
his overall desire shifted to two more things: a car and a job.
Andrew didn’t get a license along with a car until mid-way through
his senior year, and by then he discovered how realistically hard
it was to get a job. He had submitted twenty applications in one
month, but he didn’t receive a single reply. His parents paid for
part of the gas money, but the rest came from his
savings.
    During junior year,
he began to read more often. He had never liked reading much, let
alone English class, but things were coming to him more easily at
this point. Most of it seemed easier because the teacher genuinely
wanted the students to learn, but maybe it was also because
Andrew’s mind was maturing a bit more. He enjoyed reading Modern
books for their realistic yet interesting themes, since the
Romantic novels he was familiar with made him sick of useless
details and ideals; he would prefer To
Kill a Mockingbird over The Scarlet Letter any
day.
    Andrew attended some engineering
classes during his senior year—he decided that with his interest in
cars and creating things, he would become an automotive engineer
for his lifetime career.
    It was around this time that his views
on the universe changed again. A teacher told him that the Greeks
treated what we called their “mythology” as their religion, and
that all religions, like myths, are just explanations for
supernatural events. He applied this statement towards science,
thinking that science was the only explanation with concrete proof
in this world, and that everything in this universe could be
explained through logical, possible science; he was officially an
atheist. He still felt, however, that souls could exist and that
they were just not logically explainable yet. Perhaps all answers
are held in the future. Or maybe not.
    Then came the
emptiness—he begun to believe that his life was so content that it
was boring. He wanted nothing in particular, whether it be a thing,
such as a video game, or an idea, such as watching the sunset.
Whatever he did want seemed to be forever out of his reach. Even early on he
was still satisfied with what he had—it was just until a series of
events occurred that he really felt unsatisfied and empty. He lost
most of his interest in automobiles, and he didn’t know why. He
lost a lot of his friends from high school after graduation, and he
stopped talking to the friends that remained, simply because he
didn’t take the effort to see them face-to-face anymore. He felt
pessimistic and emotionless for months. He thought that maybe he
would feel better if he helped others by joining some clubs or
doing some community service. Too bad he was on the sidelines so
often that whatever he did hadn’t counted for
shit.
    He wanted a change more than ever. He
just didn’t feel like he himself needed to change as much as the
world needed to.
     
     
     

Chapter 6
    On May 30, 2016, in Pomona, California,