If you don’t want to live longer, don’t make friends.When I was fourteen, I realized that I wasn’t popular, but I wanted to be.  I am an only child, and I was more comfortable talking with adults.  I was extremely tentative if I was left in a room to play with other kids.  I wasn’t so much a geek as a bookworm.One cloudless afternoon I pondered my loneliness sitting alone in my backyard, and I noticed a swallowtail butterfly drifting from one flower to another.  I wanted to be that butterfly, able to shift and sip from flower to flower