A Different Side of You

Last night a few of my friends got together to celebrate Angela graduating with a masters in criminal justice. How many people do you know that has a masters degree by the age of 22? We were all so proud of her except for Angela and it showed at the end of the night. As many of you know, alcohol will reveal many feelings you have built up inside and well, it showed a different side of Angela many of us has never seen before, including me. At the end of the night, she disappeared for awhile and no one knew where she was. We were all hanging out in the parking lot of a karaoke place when all of a sudden she started yelling at Nick, her ex boyfriend and started attacking him. Mike got her to calm down and Kathrina took her aside to talk to her. Mallory and I decided it's time to go home and we were saying our goodbyes. When we got to Kathrina, Angela, and Vivian, Angela started talking nonsense. She kept saying how she failed her dead mother because she cannot make a lot of money with a masters in criminal justice. She kept saying it wasn't fair that she didn't have enough time with her mother when she passed away with cancer when she was in the 6th grade. I really felt bad for her because she's never talked about her mom at all and everyone was getting a glimpse of how she's been feeling in her drunken state. We kept reassuring her that her mother is definitely proud of her. Money does not equal success. But it's hard to convince her when she grew up comfortable and is able to buy anything she wants whenever she wants. I know she will be successful in anything she does, I just hope she realizes it. She deserves to be happy. I just feel that not growing up with a mother, she believes she's not allowed to be happy.