The Cycle of Fate
The cycle of Fate This week on a site I frequent, the following question was asked and my answer as given. Portia, over the last many weeks has been strong on my mind – many times when this push on the psyche is done, the person in thought is one also in need of assistance, though I have tended to go on with my own life and using the push more for reflection than responding too it. Tell us: who’s the most surprising friend you’ve ever made? And why? For me, one would be a black girl in the seventh grade. I had just been moved from a very rural type area to 12, started in a huge junior high much larger than even the high school where I came from and a quick wakening to another way kids interacted. The beginnings, to meeting Portia was in the gym locker room after class one day when for some very stupid reason on my part I let my mouth get into a discussion between her and another girl. We were both stubborn and within minutes, I had engaged a fight between myself, her,...