National Adult Literacy Database

October 1, 2001

This week, we are launching 9 stories written by learners in Duncan, BC. As a special event you can read the stories and hear some of them.

This Way of Life

by Neil McLean

This way of life is trying. I'm trying to realign my life according to my new beliefs. I really don't know how to act. I am trying so very hard to conform, but I feel I'm not getting ahead. No one understands. No one. I feel alone, the details are as follows. No one likes me. I am alone. I am arrogant and abrasive or so I'm told. I don't mean to be I just am. It's not like I get up and plan to be an A-hole, it just happens that way. I'm sorry.