I am different. I'm humble. I couldn't be like anybody else. I am unadulterated, liberated, and unbothered. I see things as they are. I like things that have meaning and not pointless "lifeless" things people my age do. I am what someone my age would call me "strange" or "like a mom".

I ALWAYS go against the status quo. I love Jesus,nature, Lauryn Hill, sitting at home on the weekends, writing poetry, and picking up new skills. I embrace my natural afro-texture hair, bare face, bizarre clothing choices, and neo soul music.

Money does not impress me nor do materialistic things. I worry about my future and building financial security. I love finding the spiritual meaning of life and I don't just accept any person into my life that has empty excuses and bad intentions. But there is one thing i know for sure: I know my worth.

Growing up, like 99% of other girls in America, I warped into media's views of society. I straightened my hair six times a day and piled my face with makeup. At age 13, I was wearing multiple layers of spandex trying to cover up my 225 pound figure.

I obsessed over getting a small waistline and perfectly white teeth. I would go to gym class and sit in the corner and stare at pictures online of these photo-shopped unrealistic ideas of what a girl was supposed to look like. Like other girls, I just wanted acceptance. I would stand next to some girls in the bathroom adjusting my make up and clothes just like they were comparing myself to them.

What in the world was I thinking trying to look exactly like someone I could never look like? I was trying to impress some boys whose names I can now barely remember and wasted away my youth being unhappy myself. At one point in my junior year of high school, I said enough was enough. I cut off a good portion of my hair, threw away the makeup, and picked up my pencil and started writing away.

As I sit here and write this in my sophomore year of college, I just look back at my old middle and high school diaries and just awe at how different I am. It's OK to be different. I decided to step out of the mold society gave me and defy my own destiny. I hate being like everyone else. Everything else is so boring.

I don't like being brainwashed like the rest of this world. This world, in my opinion, is in bondage. Social media and the status quo warps the minds of this world with psychological chains into these unhappy humans who can't think for themselves. We are slaves as a nation .

The media deceives people and some people are so brainwashed to believe everything they hear and wont dare to defy the odds. I have now found my identity in God and I know I am a freaking princess and do not want any validation from anyone! As Madea once said " I'd rather be sitting in a corner with a puppy and a gold fish and be happy than to be sitting around with somebody in my life and wondering what the heck are they there for."

When you are sitting there on your death bed, do you want to say you lived your life happily or do will you have regrets because you were on this Earth unhappy, unfulfilled, and miserable? If you like me you do and if you don't, you aren't relevant to my life.

I know most nineteen-year-olds don't think like me but unlike most people my age I am unbothered by the insignificance of impertinent opinions. After reading this article, some people will see that I am right. Most will look at me like I am crazy, but I will not be repressed by this simple minded world. I am not under the mass deception. I am different. It took a brave girl to do what I've done and as a result, I found inner freedom.