Hi, I'm James Patrick, and I'm 15 years old. (This is much more of an essay and not a journal, so here we start). Compared to other kids I never had that many hardships, not really, stuff's happened. But the real challenge in my life, the real hardship is me, it's always been me. As hard as I can remember I've never not been afraid. Afraid of failure, of letting people down, hurting people, getting hurt. Before, if I keep my heart up and focus on other things, other people, if I could even feel it well then no harm would come to me. I screwed up, I didn't just shot out pain, I shot out everything. The good and the bad, until there was nothing