I have 11 days until I turn 21, and I've been taking some time to
acknowledge all that I've accomplished.

It's crazy to think that I was a teenager a couple years ago, and
finding all these great bands and having all these phases that
helped me to find myself, and now I have a music blog that
showcases all those bands and all my new discoveries.

It's been two years since I graduated high school, and two years
that I've been a writer for the Odyssey.

It's insane to think that I was just creating these "characters" as
a sketch idea when I was about 11, and now I've found infinite
unique designs and they're going to be my trademark.

I've been in college since August 2017 and I decided to major in
Business Management with a focus in Human Resources.

I've done so much writing and I've improved so much, and somehow I
always come up with new ideas.

It's crazy to think that my photography started as a small hobby,
and my first camera was my family's Vivitar, and eventually my
Nintendo DSi and my Blackberry, and then my Canon which came to me
through luck.

I always dreamed of getting a professional camera, and I always
used what I had, so it was always a dream that was in a the back of my head but it never truly left.

As of today, I've taken over 9,000 pictures with that camera and I
created my photo blog on a whim back in 2015, and it's such an
awesome outlet to post my variety of snapshots. Also, every cover
photo on my Odyssey articles is one of my pictures!

I figured that since I have so many, I could mix all my passions
together and make one big representation of everything I love!
Now, I've written all this to show that if you have passion, you
should follow it. There will be things that happen along the way
that you don;'t expect, but it's part of the puzzle. It's another
piece of what makes you unique.

We're all unique beings with individual perspectives. Everyone's
perspective deserves to be showcased because there's no reason not
to showcase others as well as yourself.
It is said that the best way to gain experience in anything is to
research and discover, and you may even have to go out of your
comfort zone but this is where we find out how much we truly
capable of.

So, even though it can seem like a struggle as first, know that
it's proof of how much potential you have and none of your efforts
go to waste. Everything is a learning experience and you gain
perspective from these things.

If you've got a perspective, show it. You have your own mind and
you have the choice to conform or you can use your mind and break
new ground. It's scary, but all the best things are this way.

You have a moment to make a decision, and you've gotta be careful,
but don't lose out on great opportunities in the process.

Follow your path and find yourself.