Seconds slowly faded to minutes as those minutes crept to hours. Fourteen hours later of sitting in a confined aircraft, I finally reached my paradise. It was a break from the world I needed to escape from. As I strided off that plane, I felt all the layers of my worries peel off and remain behind me. With a recent court case involving work, my dad being hospitalized, and being dumped by my boyfriend over text I needed and escape and here it was. Ten days on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Oahu. I felt so free and I was ecstatic to spend this time with my sister. We went to a fabulous outdoor mall in Honolulu and it felt so glamorous, but as I shopped I was constantly reminded of my singleness and flirty couples passed by. I ignored it and
