CRUNCH! Magazine CRUNCH! Magazine - Issue 5 [Spring of 2018] (1) | Page 23

good personality to make up for it. I wonder if everyone is praying I don’t share classes with them next year, or if they hope I’m not at school tomorrow. I wonder if anyone actually likes me at all. The inner therapeutic friend in me said “God loves you.” It felt kind of stupid at first, but then it dawned on me. This is why people believe in this God. It’s because he gives you a sense of hope, a sense of happiness in your darkest time. It doesn’t work if you don’t truly believe in him, because it feels like you are just trying to make yourself feel better by telling yourself that these fake people like you. You have to see the light. It’s a little teal, a little white, and reminds you of an orange. In that moment, I cried from happiness. I realized that, no matter what, if God is actually real, then I must have a path that he is guiding me through, just like the people at FCA said. It made me feel 1000 times better, and I got online to do some work to give him a reason to be proud of me. (Of course, I wandered over to my Drive to type this out, and that took about three hours.) But it’s all worth it, and I feel like a new person. I felt like sharing this discovery somehow to a lot of people in case they are going through the same thing, especially around testing, so they can get their lives together too. 19