It's Friday night, 2 a.m.

While the typical college student is either catching up on sleep or drinking their liver away, I'm furiously writing a scene about three children and an axe murderer who, unbeknownst to them, just escaped from the local psych ward.

Fast forward to the following Tuesday afternoon, and you can find me listening to Boyz II Men's "Doin' Just Fine" in an attempt to nail Wanya's vocal run coming off the song's uber-climactic bridge. (I never quite get it, but success doesn't come to those to never try, right?)

Now it's Thursday, and I'm intently analyzing the camera work out of a scene of my favorite show, How to Get Away With Murder. This particular scene entails Viola Davis's character feeling her world crash around her, as countless issues seem to come to head. The camera (wo)man proceeds to circle Davis like a shark sizing up its prey, gradually picking up speed to perfectly capture the best moment of the entire second season.

Hello, and welcome to the life of a creative mastermind.

It's always been this way for me.

Whether it was nabbing the lead in the second grade play, starring in a local commercial in middle school, or designing spreads for the yearbook in high school, I've always found myself involved in different tasks, and excelling in them.

It just took attending college to actually see it.

My true passion is writing; making people confront buried emotions, re-live experiences, and learn new things about themselves through words is not only powerful, but necessary.

I thought I wanted to be Oprah. And I still do. But now I want to be Oprah, Tyler Perry, Babyface, Bobby Flay, and Wale all wrapped in one.

I promise I'm not crazy, just crazy creative.

The reason why I'm writing this is to inform. I don't think practically; in fact, I tend to create more problems for myself than solve them. I'm not the most fashionable, I love country music, and I'm cool with just hanging out all by myself sometimes.

And that's OK.

In this society, and more specifically in this country, we should celebrate differences because it's what makes America special.

Someone told me last week that my goals aren't attainable "for a black man in modern day America."

I simply replied with, "Have you ever read about the naysayers who said Galileo was insane in your textbooks?"

And I think we all know the answer to that.

Let me be Galileo. I have discoveries to be made.