I never really thought about goals I had for my life besides the usual: go to college, get an apartment with a couple dozen cats. A relationship with someone would nice. I feel like that would make me happy, but it would be somehow unsatisfying by itself because I’ve always had this desire to want to help other people. I never really knew how to do that.

I was scrolling through Instagram. The usual cosplay, makeup and dog pictures popped up. Then, I saw one of Miley Cyrus’ posts; it was about her charity, The Happy Hippie Foundation. It’s a non-profit foundation aimed at rallying young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth and other vulnerable groups of people.

I thought to myself, “That would be so cool to do something like that.” I knew I wanted to do something that could legitimately help people. I thought about what I could make the foundation about, and since art is the only semi-good thing I can do, I decided on that. At some point I came across art therapy. Art Therapy uses self-expression to diagnose, and it’s also used remedially to help with stress, brain injuries and different mental disorders. I was diagnosed with depression when I was thirteen and I'm still struggling with it, so I think it'd be a good thing to be able to help other peoples like me.

I’m just a freshman in college, so, it'll be a while before I have to have it planned out, but even if I decide not to go through with it, I hope wherever I end up, that I am helping people who need it.