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What kinds of people do you identify with.

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What kinds of people do you identify with.

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The people who I tend to gravitate towards are women, as throughout my life I have always been around women. My mom, my aunts, my sisters, and all their friends were all women. It made it hard for me to grow up. After all, I thought because I was a boy I had to be friends with only boys. I would seek out being friends with only guys and it left me feeling outcasted with any of the friends I had as I never fit in with them. This went on for 16 years of my life. Sure, I had a couple of friends who were girls, but I would never be close to them because I didn't want to be judged by others. Not until my junior year of high school, when I finally started accepting myself, did I start becoming friends with girls, and now it is almost exclusively girls who I am friends with. I am happier than ever and feel included with all of my friend groups. So to answer the question, the people I identify with are women.

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School is critical because of the knowledge you gain throughout your years. The educational part is important, but what I believe is just as important are the social skills you get. Not only do you learn about the typical subjects (math, English, social studies, and science), but the social skills you learn in school propel you further in life. Many people's first interactions with others are through a schooling environment, and without school, there would be important social skills that we would lack.

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What kind of things does your family want from you?

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What kind of things does your family want from you?

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My family has high expectations for me. Both of my sisters are extremely successful. The oldest, Maiya, is in Miami, working for a company she loves living out her dream. Elle, the middle child, is in Pharmacy school at South Carolina University and is going to make six figures straight out of college. It is a lot of pressure with how high my sisters set the bar, but I do believe that I have what it takes to achieve what they have. Even though I do want to be successful, I know that no matter what happens in my life, my family will be there for me. If I end up not being as great as my sisters, my entire family will still always be there for me. This love that I feel from my family takes some of the weight off my shoulders.

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Success, to me, means getting the ability to live out my dream. I don't believe that success is having so much money that you can throw all of it away at random mansions in the Maldives. While that would be nice, I will feel success and content with my life if I get to a point where I can have a family and provide for them. I want to be able to have children and know that they can trust me. Also, success to me is the ability to help those who have helped me in any type of way, especially my parents. My parents have created such a fortunate childhood for me, so while I don't believe I could ever repay them for that, the ability to give them something in exchange for what they have done for me will make me feel like I have lived a successful life.

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What is the most important "thing" in your life?

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What is the most important "thing" in your life?

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The most important thing in my life is my sisters. My sisters and I have been through some rough moments in our childhood which have bonded us together. Our parents have never gotten along and would drink at night. They weren't to the point of being an alcoholic, but enough to get them to say stuff to each other that they wouldn't normally say. This led to many, many verbal fights between them. When this would happen, my sisters and I would go to one of our rooms and talk to one another about anything to keep our minds off of our parents' fight. This brought us close and is why they are the most important thing to me now. I would do anything to keep them safe and they would do the same for each other and me.

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The person who impacted me the most is Mario. Mario is someone who I met through my volleyball club last year and he has made me feel comfortable in myself like no one has before. I had always been someone who shied away from being myself as I thought people wouldn't accept me for who I am. I would walk, talk, and present myself completely differently from how I am. I would look around school and try to find people who were "cool enough" to make me cool if I were friends with them. That didn't work, for obvious reasons, and I ended up going through a lot of years of school with little to no friends. That was until I met Mario, who was himself no matter the situation. He brought me out of my shell and showed me how amazing it is to be able to be yourself. I made so many new friends and I no longer put on a mask to please others.