From Your Friend in the Shadows

  Dear Reader, whoever you may be…      It’s been at least some 60 weeks if not more since I wanted to write this, a sum of my thoughts perhaps, it's not the most coherent so please forgive me.      First before I move on, who am I? I am simply a university student studying chemistry, one of a generation who’d be the last influenced by the Greatest Generation, one of many who never witnessed the horrid terrorist attacks that were September 11th, 2001, yet grew up in its shadow. I was raised in a Christian home, but that’s neither here nor there. During middle and high school, I spent much of my free time oddly, studying, it wouldn’t be until community college I realized I was a bit of a workaholic. During this time, I’d study various subjects including but not limited to legal codes, chemistry, and history. The history bit would be important later. During community college, before transferring to university, I spent my days as a par...