Looking around me, I realized I was back in the exact same situation I was in six months ago. Nothing had changed in that time, yet everything had. I might’ve been sitting in the same park, scavenging for the same jobs, but I wasn’t the same person. I had changed. I had loved and lost in more ways than I could count. But I had also found a strength within me I didn’t know I had. I’d gone through so much and still made it out alive.