You will learn many things over a course of one short year. Some of the things will alter you as a person completely. But, it is how you handle those things that will speak volumes to who you are today.

You will experience heart break, from both ones related by blood and ones who are just people you meet. These people will break you down beyond your limits. They will mistreat you although you did not do anything to be mistreated. However, at the time, you often took blame for your treatment by them. That is what broke you down. It was tough to piece yourself back together and plant two firm feet on the ground by you did.

You will experience hardship. You will endure things that you would never wish against your enemy to endure. These hardships will have a heavy weight on your heart, almost keeping you from moving on. But, you will find small little distractions from the things that caused you the most pain.

You will find out the people that will really be there for you. Although you thought you could trust everyone around you, you came to find very quickly that that was not the case. You will spend countless hours blaming yourself. But you will come to find out those people are not worth the time nor effort.

You have gone through countless things in your life that seemed nearly impossible to get through. But, you did. Because of that you have a stronger sense of your self-worth, well-being and most importantly, a better sense of morality.