Evaristo Salas Jr.

And I didn't really know how I was going to react to experiencing that.

But the fact that I did that, the fact that my mind was outside of that box, it wasn't really nothing, you know.

I mean, yeah, I got confused over the self-checkout things and I needed help for a couple of weeks, you know.

Yeah.

And then my slow driving pissed every single person behind me off.

But I was just going to this, you know, it said 20 miles, 25 miles an hour.

I ain't breaking a single law.

And so, but other than that, it was like, you know, it came almost, it's strange because one of my cousins today sent me a picture that we took right outside the McDonald's, right outside the prison that I went to.

And it seems so far away, but it was only seven months ago.

It just seems like, and that was one thing I always worried about.

I wondered, I was thinking that maybe is my mind going to be so affected by the 27 years that I did that I was going to be reminded of that place every time I went to sleep and dreams, that kind of stuff.

But that really isn't the case.

I can sense it and feel it, but it's not overwhelming.

It's not, it doesn't even really need to be managed.

You know, it's just like, you know, going to college for the first time was really strange, you know, but, you know, I always thought about that.

I always thought what that would feel like to be on campus, be surrounded by a bunch of little young kids, which I was surrounded with.

And here I have, I have my backpack on, you know, I have my, I got everything on, I got all my stuff in it.

It feels so strange because it reminds, I was, I think 14, 15 last time I went to school and I,

And I almost feel like maybe I shouldn't wear this, but then I think, wait, this is the only convenient way I can carry stuff.

I have to, you know what I mean?