I always struggle when it comes to writing about myself because I don't have much to say. I am simply a combination of all the people I have encountered in my life. As I get older I am coming into my own so to speak, but I still feel like my life isn't my own. I have always been the person people turn to when they need to talk or need advice. Sometimes I hate being everyone's "person," but I have grown to appreciate the fact that people value the things I say despite the fact that I make everything up as I go along. I think the reason I sometimes resent being there for everyone is because I sometimes feel like no one is there for me.

Have Your Voice Heard: Become an Odyssey Creator

However, that is also the reason I continue to help the people in my life that look to me for guidance. I have lived an entire lifetime in my brief seventeen years on this earth. Every day I learn something new, and I try to see the good in every situation. I constantly tell people to see things from a new perspective. There is always something to learn and something we can gain from the things we experience. I am a sixty-five-year-old woman at heart, and everyone who knows me would probably agree. I try to find joy in the little things in my life because if I thought about all the shitty things that happen on a daily basis I would go insane. I like taking long drives with my friends and playing cards with my grandparents. I love having conversations with my mom and her friends as they sip wine around our kitchen table. I love when my friends take pictures of me being myself without me having to ask. I believe that everyone should know that they're loved and that we should grow from every experience we have.

Maya Angelou once said, "To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."