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Birth
John Sheperd is born -
Bullying
The kids at his school bully him because he cannot dance, he often feels emotionally drained inside and doesn't want to go to school. -
Overcoming bullying
He ends up moving to a more accepting, caring, and overall positive school where he will be accepted for his awful dance moves. -
Puberty...
Puberty begins for John, he begins to freel overly sensitive and suffers from mood swings regularly, which puts him off balance emotionally at first. -
Exams
Exams are coming up in a few days, and John is stressed to his limit on all the things he needs to study on and keep track of. He feels overwhelmed a frustrated his Algebra teacher actually thinks he'll use square roots in later life. He uses this anger to push himself forward and crush the exams and finish with all A's. -
Setting goals
John eventually makes a promise to run more often and to get more excercise, he isn't the most physically fit so he could work on building up his strength, the couch potato. -
Drinking Problems
His girlfriend begins to drink on the weekends, he doesn't approve, but she says that its fine and that she promises not to drive while drunk or to drink very often on week days. He's concerned about her wellbeing, her liver could become damaged, she could do things she wouldn't normally do while under the influence, or she could become a binge drinker and get alcohol poisoning, which may kill her. -
Heartbreak
After 2 years of drinking Johns girlfriend finally decided she was safe to go driving drunk and in the haze crashed head on heading down the freeway, she was killed on impact. This was extremely hard for John, and for a period he felt extremely angry at life, at whatever caused the crash, at himself. Eventually he accepted that this was beyond his control, and eventually was able to let go and move on. -
Staying away from trouble
After last years crash he decideds to stay away from alcohol, drugs, and other things that could potentially harm him, so he can lead a full, happy and healthy life. -
Background
John learns that his family has a history of obesity and he wants to eat healthier so that the same doesn't happen to him. -
Prevention
John is at a party with some friends who try to drive home drunk. After losing his girlfriend to a accident already he is determined to stop his friends from getting in an accident too. He tells them that they could get pulled over by the police if they don't get in a crash before. -
Flippin Flu
John comes down with the flu for the week, feeling extremely sick, he looks up ways to treat the flu and in the results he finds that there are several decongestants like nasal sprays he can use to get rid of certain symptoms of the flu. He also looked up ways he can prevent the flu from happening again and found that staying away from sick people, getting the vaccine that year, and taking antiviral drugs if a doctor prescribes them can keep him from getting the flu. -
Death
John is driving when he gets in a head-on collision with a drunk driver, the impact kills him and the driver instantly. :'(