Many young people live their lives thinking that they're invincible. They do what they want, and they think that nothing can harm them. Kids are starting to drink and do drugs from a younger age these days. And they don't realize just what effects it is having on them.
This is where I differed from kids growing up. I never really had the option to do those things, because I knew that it would compromise the state of my already fragile liver. It was hard knowing that I was so different from my friends, but I tried my hardest to not let it get to me. And though I tried to not let that stuff get to me, I made my friends treat me like I was normal. I still would go out with my friends, and watch them do the stupid stuff that teens do. I just never had the ability to participate in them. I guess you could say this made me grow up faster than most kids my age. I went from being a kid, to being an adult. I chose to separate myself from the "party scene" and whatnot, so I wouldn't be tempted into trying things. Comprimising my health was never an option, because I was barely holding onto my liver as it was. But I didn't let my liver, live my life. I didn't think about my liver at all times, and so in a way I still lived like I was invincible.
It wasn't until I was 21 years old, that I realized that people aren't invincible. That was when I wound up sick enough to end up in the hospital. It was a week being admitted in the hospital before the doctors realized that my liver was the cause of all my problems, and a liver specialist came in to inform me that it was time that I work on getting myself listed on the transplant list. It was like being hit with a sack of bricks. Learning that death really is a real thing that it can happen at anytime. I learned in that moment that I wasn't invincible.
