PRIDE AND STUBBORNJUDICE
It’s a little poetic that I can’t remember the exact date of one of the most important decisions of my life. All I know is it was around the beginning of March 2014. The decision didn’t feel that important when I made it. It definitely didn’t feel like a “potential life ruining mistake” like a few adults told me at the time, that seemed dramatic to me then (and still a little dramatic now). Looking back on it 12 years later, it does feel extremely important to me! But not for the reasons all of those adults said it would be. (Note: I may or may not have written about some of this before in a post that now doesn't exist. Too bad we'll never know) — — — — — — — — — — Let’s go waaaaay back to the beginning. From 2nd - 6th grade, I was in the ALPS program at my elementary school. Apparently that stands for Advanced Learning Placement for Students. I never once thought about what ALPS stood for and I didn’t even realize it was an acronym until like 8th grade (clearly I belonged, wit...