Saw a post today that said, âAnd I got to thinking⌠Love⌠it should be RELEASING the chains that bind you.. to any sadness or depression or questioning. It shouldnât be holding you there. Ever. And unfortunately, it is. Itâs keeping you still & even making you move backward. Pulling you in to more darkness, deeper chains. Love should set you free. Always.â This got me thinking.  I realize i am not the most open, most trusting, or most friendly person. I also know that i am very corrosive and cynical at times and like to be a loner. With looking at the psycho analysis of some of my thinks that i know I am flawed with. I realize that i am pretty much broken, shattered, torn. I myself have my own chains on my, regrets that i begrudge on myself, memories that tear pieces of me apart. Loves that i have destroyed or never had, feelings that I have never opened up to anyone. Heartache that has left me so shattered i donât even know how to piece myself together again. Stitch my tattered pieces together, a canvas that has been slashed by my own anger.   I had a first love in high school, her name was Michelle Harmony Glatz. She was my first true love, one that i embraced and enjoyed. One that I literally lost because i lost my way. I ran into a great depression when i was younger because i was being manipulated, controlled and held back. Not by just me, but my parents as well. I couldnât be myself and found myself rebelling and using Michelle as my escape. I enjoyed every second of time i had with her. I found myself fully engrossed into this girl and her family. Then miscommunication happened and she thought i said something that i had not. I said to one of my friends that, â If i was single, i would date you. I know that you look at your current relationship and believe that it will not last. That doesnât mean that you shouldnât enjoy every waking moment, second, tiny particle of the relationship and the boy you are with. If you take it for granted then it will slip through your fingers. If I were you, i would cherish it, even rejoice with the fact that you found a soul mate that understands you. YOu and him are lucky to have such a relationship.â With this being said, someone said that i was attempting to cheat on Michelle. So while i was in my depression with my parents a fatal blow was sent over email to me and i got it at school. i read is and collapsed. I must have punched that locker so much because i had fractured both my hands. My hands were bleeding messâs. As i cried alone in the locker room, only one thing came to mind. After i lost my one love in life at the time there was nothing left. I ran⌠  I then came to Utah and went to school and never thought again about michelle or colorado. I lost myself in becoming numb and emotionless. Then michelle got in contact with me. Her prom was coming up and she wanted me to be her date. I obliged and went back to Colorado and rekindled a flame between us that had been missed for years. Unfortunately in the time i was gone something great had been lost. Her father⌠Her father had committed suicide and she was the one that found him. I cried, i cried and cried and cried. i was sorry for not being there when she needed me. For not being in her life more. For leaving and never looking abck or thinking about her once. I was sorry that i had failed her.   I left for Utah again and I constantly messaged Michelle. I thought everything was good. I eventually went to Colorado and saw Michelle again. That was our first time. It wasnât mine, but for her it was. It was⌠Special. The attachment grew and grew and i had to go back to Utah again. I left and we kept on communicating. IT was hard because i loved her so much and dreamed of her night after night. Until the day i got back on myspace to message her and i had a reply to my last message. The reply said, â Sam, I canât do thisâŚâ I immediately called her and she said she couldnât do the distance, âWith you out there and me here. There is to much here that reminds me of you and you are not here to actually be apart of my life. I donât think this is going to work out⌠Good byeâ that was the last thing i heard about michelle until i received a call from my mother. Michelle had drank so much that she had alcohol poisoning⌠I called her immediately. She screamed at me through the phone about how i only call because she wa hurt? Donât call again. I was shattered. Michelle eventually went further down hill. She was smoking pot and cigarettes and getting drunk more often. She was on a downward spiral because of a broken heart. A broken heart i caused. She now has a child named harmony. That was my first regret. This is one of the memories I have of love. This is part 1