April 26, 1992

Charlie is under a lot of pressure during the time he wrote this entry. He kissed Sam, instead of Mary Elizabeth, while she was at the same party as them. He said he did this because the dare was "kiss the prettiest girl in the room" and he didn't want to lie. Charlie thinks of things way too in depth. He feels bad about things he cannot help. He hates that his friends aren't speaking to him because of the kiss, he hates that he has to see a psychiatrist and take the medicine that he is prescribed by the psychiatrist because it is too expensive for his father, he feels bad about everything. He was so stressed out that he took his Easter money and bought pot with it, and smoked it alone during Spring break. This is easy to relate to for some people i'm sure. There are many stories where people turn to drugs to handle depression or stress because they do not know what else to turn to. This entry made me worry about Charlie as if I knew him, like he was a friend of mine and I didn't want to see him fall into the wrong path.