It's a lie to say most people are eventually faced with one single choice that will change their lives forever. In the movies and books that might happen, but in real life...that's just not how it works. Life is made up of a series of decisions, some bigger some smaller, that by themselves are not usually life altering. At least that's what I thought until I heard the confession he insisted on giving me. He rocked my world on its axis with a simple sentence and I didn't know at that point if I could ever recover from it. Then I did something that surprised myself. For one night I became the carefree, headstrong girl, impulsive girl I was in high school; the one who's family was still whole and I at least thought was happy. I met my younger self and I fell into something, became someone I did not know existed, except buried deep in my heart. And without truly acknowledging it I made my own choice; one that would change my world forever and have repercussions I could then only dream about. Then again maybe I'm still deluding myself right this second. Maybe if things had been different I still wouldn't have been able to help myself. Maybe I would have fallen anyway.