'Alisha!! Wake up you're running late. Alisha!!!' Sire licks Alisha's face as she grunts out of bed. She sluggishly looks at the clock on her side table and notices how long she'd slept. 'No no no, I have lectures by 8 am'. It was 6:30 am leaving her just an hour to get ready for school. Running out the doorway she greets her Father -Mr Wright- who was sitting at the dinning table, kisses her Mother in the kitchen, grabs a pancake and runs back to her room. It's very unusual for Alisha to wake up late as she rarely rushes for anything. Her parents have always known her to be an early riser who is almost never in a hurry. Today was the opposite and it got them worried. They glanced at each other as if to say something...they were sure they were thinking the same thing.
'Oh God not this traffic!!' Alisha was already frustrated. 10 more minutes to 8 am and she was held up in traffic. 'How did this happen to me?', she sighed. Staring into the morning sky as birds flew in their flock, she remembered how God cared for those tiny beings even providing food and shelter for them. Alisha's thoughts were now far from the traffic. Still staring into the sky a tear dropped down her cheek before she realized she'd drifted into a cloud of thought that got her emotional. She didn't even realize the cab was already at her school. 'Hey!! Are you dropping?' The male voice of an angry taxi driver startled her out of her thoughts as whipped her tears and stepped out of the cab, this time not rushing. It didn't take long for Alisha to notice she had depression.
It was on a Tuesday night 2 months ago. Alisha had some old friends over. They hadn't been together for 4 years and that night was the only time they had to catch up. Jennifer, Alice, Shanell and Alisha have been friends since High School, they shared many dreams together and hoped that their lives would turn out the way they wanted. That night Jennifer, Alice, and Shanell all had great testimonies of how their dreams cmae true...Alice barely had anything to say save for 'oh wow!! Congratulations!! I'm so happy for you sweetheart'. That meeting was the genesis of her morning doses of depression.