Day 22: Something you wish you hadn’t done in your life.

There is probably only one thing I wish I hadn't done in my life, and more of that has to do with something I wish I HAD done - say no. Basically, on my 21st birthday I went to a bar and they offered me what they called the "birthday pitcher" - a pitcher filled with random types of beer and liquor all combined in one. At this point in my life I had just been diagnosed with celiac disease. I knew I wasn't supposed to have gluten, but I didn't fully understand what it did to me. And moreover I was intimidated by the mob chanting, "Chug, chug, chug, chug!!" And so...I chugged. Really I wish I had had the confidence to say, "No, I'm allergic to beer" but the peer pressure got to me and I screwed up my body pretty royally for that one moment. A moment that, for the record, was not worth it at all. This drink did not taste good at all. This drink did not put me in a state that made me happy or feel better about myself. No, this drink simply made me sick. Very sick. And not just in the drunk kind of way. 

But I can't leave this post just about that, because before I even thought about that one moment I had something else to say. And that is that I don't think there is much in my life that I truly wish I hadn't done, because everything I have done, everything I have been through, has made me who I am today. Without those experiences my life would be different. And right now I like who I am.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger. Or something like that. Yeah Marine Corps.