I was born May 31, 2000 What shaped me into what I am today is a placed I used to call home. A place called Simi valley.

It was and hot and sunny town most of the time, It wasn't very enjoyable. Yet it is the place I grew up in & nobody should forgot the place where you come from. Growing up I was set in a competitive environment. A environment where you needed to be greater than the person next to you. A competitive environment full of the thirst of more strength or power. The feeling of needing to be better and stronger than everyone else is stuck and a part of me, its of piece that was carved into me. Yet one thing about me was something that I am grateful for having. I needed to be different to be than the rest of other people. I grew up around kids in their cliques, and groups, I didn't want to be like the rest of them I hated the idea of being a follower, because why be follower when you can be a leader? I promised myself to be different than anyone else, to not be like the rest of them.



I always keep a promise to myself as well. It was to never pick on kids or bully kids. The reason I kept myself to this is because during my later years of elementary school there was a group of kids that like to pick on kids for fun. I guess I was one of the kids that they didn't really like. It some ways it makes me seem today-have a feeling of being protective, helpful, and needing to be there to stop things. It also seems to add to me needing to be more powerful and stronger than people. Wanting to be the alpha somehow some way. I hate the the people who do it, I just hate the whole act. I make the person be quiet if they do it, it in my nature now. The part of me that cant be taken out. All because of experience from it, making me stand up do whats right, because I know what its like.



In the end I'm proud of what I have become. I might not be the perfect human being. I might have not always done the the right choices. Yet what makes me today is something I am not ashamed of. I cant change the place I came from, and I will not forget where I came from. Because you should never forgot where you came from. Its what made you, you.