I'm a poet, philocalist, and amateur philosopher at heart. My life has been that of a global nomad, roaming around the earth for humanitarian work with my family. I have held hungry, sweaty babies under the West African sun, listened to the tragic tales of my Middle Eastern friends in European hubs for immigrants, gone over English flashcards with refugees in urban cities within the United States, and spent endless hours mentoring young girls in every place I have gone. I have also served as a community assistant for an online writing program (The Young Writer's Workshop) where I helped monitor community health, engaged in mental-health conversations with struggling teens, and offered writing aid on a regular basis. In all of these things, I have seen the brokenness of this world. But I have seen beauty too. And the beauty is worth chasing. This spark of light in darkness compels me to dig deeper into the goodness of every moment--to spend my life serving others. It is for this reason that I intend to major in psychology with the goal of serving cross-culturally through crisis and trauma counseling. As a high-school senior, I desire to enter college in pursuit of resources and knowledge to help hurting people, because I have met the hurting people. I have seen their faces, I have held their hands, I have walked their lands. I have learned to love them...and I want to spend my life spilling that love upon them.