As we grow up, we are given two choices: to be the “real us”--riddled with self-doubt and overcome by troubling experiences--or to be the facade that we present. However we choose to present ourselves, it is common knowledge that time doesn’t wait for anyone. In fact, life is what happens to us when we are busy making other plans. And so as we live, caught up in our reality of homework and first kisses, of new hellos and old goodbyes, of laughing and crying, we are too busy rushing to notice that we are running headfirst into the very thing that we have always dreamed of--growing up. In a world in which all we see is superficiality, it is a true privilege when we get a glimpse into other’s real selves.…