I've always had a passion for history. It started when my now late mother told me about the customs of Puerto Rico. I was fascinated, I'd always try to learn more. When I moved in with my father, I didn't really think about it. I was more busy playing games since I was a child. However, in middle school is when I started to develop my affinity for history. I started to read about the great empires of the Romans, Spanish, and British. I started to read about the battles of great nations such as China or America. I started to read about the beginnings of Russia, Japan, Ethiopia, etc. These things made me eager to learn more again, like a burning passion was reignited after being dormant for so many years. As I read more and more though, I've noticed that people are becoming less and less knowledgeable about history. People don't even know the histories of their own country. I was watching as history, humanity's greatest moments and stories, were being washed away to time. My goal is to stop the destruction of history at all costs. Such empires like the British have taken away history from "weaker" countries and have twisted the messages of those stories to fit their agendas. The Catholic Church during the Renaissance and Reformation tried to stomp inventive movements for their own gain. My goal is to not have this happen again. If we lose history, we lose our freedoms, our knowledge, and our achievements. This is how you destroy a civilization. It's like when the Ottomans banned the printing press, they erased history and destroyed their once glorious empire which dominated the world for centuries. How can I stop this from happening though? It's simple, teach people. Teach people about history, and the world. Many people don't realize how extensive history is, and how beautiful the world is. I'd try to make people walk out of their bubbles and see the endless aisles of history. I also plan on preserving history being made today. Historical moments happen all the time, and we don't realize this. We got the LA wildfires, Trump's recent victory over Kamala, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and so many more which fly over our heads until it's too late. I plan on recording as much as humanly possible. I plan on observing events, and recording them and writing them down for future generations to learn from and to spread information everywhere. I plan on advocating for history, as it's being erased. As places like the country I live in, the US, is being more controlling, history is being rewritten for the worse. As people, we must keep the past alive, as it's the same as building the future.

I was born into a fairly poor household. My mother and father were divorced and fighting, we didn't have money for a nice house, and we were trapped in a boring rural town in South Carolina. I didn't really know my path because I didn't really have a way to set one up. I had to face reality, such as when my mother died, at such a young age and there was no time to think about a future. I didn't even know if I'd get one. This remained a fact until I started middle school and my remaining immediate family moved to Sunrise, Florida where we got a new fresh start. I was finally able to start setting up a future, a path for myself. As I thought about my experiences, I thought about the people who helped and supported my family. The people who took time out of their day to help us get out of rock bottom and back to stability. It feels nice when that happens, when someone cares about you and helps you, even if it's not necessarily worth their time. This is the crux of my passions, to help others. My dream job is to get into politics. Where people can make changes for others. I want to be a leader not for power, or money, or anything like that. I just want to help people like how they helped my family. I want to give people a fighting chance in this unpredictable world, just like my family. My goal is to make sure no child has to go through what I went through as a young child ever again. I want everyone else to live in a house, have good food, and afford wants just like I can now. I want to thank the people who helped my family by doing the same thing they did, taking time out of their days to make sure someone has a roof over their heads and food to eat. It's the least I can do after they formed a proper path for me. To even dream of achieving this goal I need an education, an extensive one. The biggest obstacle now is myself. I have autism, high functioning autism, but autism nonetheless. This makes it hard to get stuff done. I have a hard time simply starting things. I know however that people are counting on me, and want me to succeed in life. I am forever grateful to those who helped me, but now it's my turn to step up and help someone else. I'm not going to let my own mental problems stop me from achieving what I want to do in life, I'm not going to be the cause of someone going hungry because of myself. Everyone deserves a chance, and sometimes they need someone else to make that chance happen.