My dream is to become a fashion designer and create clothes for everybody. I want my designs to be for women, men, non-binary, who are tall, short, skinny, overweight, and anybody who wants to be fashionable, I want people to be confident in the clothes they wear and I want people who wear the clothes that I design to feel stunning in whatever they wear. My goal is to connect people through clothes and to boost people's self-esteem no matter who they are everybody should feel gorgeous no matter what they wear or what they like to wear.

I believe my mental health is important because it affects how I feel, it also affects how I act around others, I am a nice person and I like to treat those who treat me nice nicely as well. My mental health also affects the decisions I make, sometimes the decisions that we make are decided by our emotions, and if our emotions are negative and out of control it could be that some decisions can end up being negative instead of positive. Mental health affects how we handle stress too, I am a very stressful person because I have a busy schedule and I sometimes can't always handle it, my mental health is important because it can allow me to better take care of my stress and the tasks that caused my stress. There are many ways that my mental health is important to me, to put it simply my mental health is important because it affects my life daily and how I handle my present and my future. I take my mental health very seriously because it is something that can hurt me if not handled right. I used to be a person who didn't manage their mental health right. I would keep things to myself and not tell anyone what I was thinking or going through, I would cry most nights because of all the stress and anxiety I had, and I would overeat or under eat not caring what was being done to my body, I didn't care about my relationships with people and I would hurt a lot of my friends and family, and I wouldn't sleep because of how much work I had or because I just couldn't sleep. Sometimes I am still that person, but I have found ways to help me on my mental wellness journey. I try to do things I love, like drawing clothes, I also meditate to help calm me when dealing with stress. I also started to focus on my physical health as well, working out a bit more and eating healthier. Working out has helped me maintain my focus and has made me appreciate my body even more. Something I didn't appreciate before. I now try to focus on the positive, which has been helping me a lot. I started to focus on my future and everything good that can happen. I focus on how my family loves me a lot, and how my birthday is coming up. I focus on the places I will go to and the food I will eat. If I'm ever in a bad place I use these thoughts to help me. I work hard so that my mental health is well. I maintain my mental wellness by trying to live my life the way I want to and letting nothing and nobody bring me down. I am the only one who can decide my future, and I will not let anybody tell me how I should be. That is what I tell myself every day. I tell myself I will be okay because I chose to be me every day.

The past few years have been hard and before now I didn't take my mental health seriously, and because of that my mental health badly influenced my relationships and career aspirations. I used to believe I couldn't do anything, that I wasn't worthy or enough to be in a romantic relationship or even a friend relationship. I was so desperate for romance I didn't realize I was hurting myself and my friends. There was also my lack of aspiration and happiness when I wanted to pursue theatre, I wasn't happy and I didn't know that theatre was one of the main causes of my depressed mood and my determination. My mental health was horrible at the time and I didn't know what to do, so I sat myself down and I started to try to find solutions to improve myself. It didn't work at first, my mental health was going down the drain and I didn't know what to do. One night to distract myself I decided to put on a fashion show for myself and try on all my clothes, a few hours later I couldn't even remember why I was sad. I then started to watch fashion videos and draw outfits. I was happy doing all those things that I stopped crying as much as I used to. I kept drawing and designing, and it took my mind off everything theatre related. I realized that theatre wasn't making me happy but fashion was making me happy and that I didn't want to be an actress I wanted to be a designer. What was used as a distraction soon became my passion and what I wanted to do in the future. Unfortunately, my mental health still wasn't amazing and it was affecting the people around me. I was always upset and screaming, my friends didn't need that. I knew I had to find a way to manage my mental health issues without hurting anyone, so instead of screaming at my friends I sat with my best friends and told them everything, and they listened. I didn't scream, I didn't yell, I talked and I said what I wanted to say, and it made me feel better, talking to someone instead of holding it in, which was the reason for my screaming. I started to feel calmer and my friends told me that they would be here whenever I needed them, which brought me closer to them. I realized that screaming about everything wasn't going to help me but instead talking will. My mental health did start to improve and I was so happy, I was doing something I loved and my relationships with my friends have never been better. As for romantically, I knew that romance was something I didn't want or need right now and I decided to focus on myself which helped me improve my relationships even more and it helped me focus on my future college and career. When it comes to my mental health, it is far from perfect and it still isn't amazing. I still have a lot of stress and anxiety, but it is improving at my own pace. I am taking my time to heal and focus on myself and what I want and need. Right now I like where I am, I like where I want to head and how to get there. My Mental health influenced how I changed over the years and it will continue to do so if I just remember to do what I love and to know that there is always someone who will listen.

The song Dos Oruguitas has the most important message to me. The song is about two caterpillars who have to separate to become butterflies. It is a metaphor for leaving something or someone to find your place in the world and create your future. As a high school senior who is graduating soon and will be leaving to go to college, this speaks to me. I am an only child who has never been on her own. I am terrified of going to college and leaving my family and friends but I know I have to if I want to have the future that I want. This song also connects to my Hispanic culture because it is originally sung in Spanish and is in a movie about a Hispanic family and since Latinos are usually very close with their families, it gives me a greater connection to the song. Furthermore, this song connected me to my mom even more since I am her only child, and it will be hard to let me go and start my journey. It will be hard for me too, and this song made us realize the time that has gone by. My mom loves this song so much that she has started to call me her Oruguita I became her little caterpillar that's heading to college to get her wings and spread them. This song had such a big influence on me, and I take the message of the song to heart as Ik I will sometimes have to let go to grow. This song is beautiful and I believe there is more than one meaning, but this is the message that I love and take to heart and will follow forever.

Equality, love, care, faith. These are just a few of the words I can use to describe feminism. Feminism to me isn't only one word but an entire collection of words and sentences. Feminism is what connects everyone in the world and is about everyone being equal and loved and where no one is dismayed for who they are, who they like, or what they think. Feminism is helping those who need it the most, and loving those who need love. Feminism to me being able to express yourself without being ashamed for who you are. I could go on, but the idea is that Feminism is different to everyone and I am a feminist because feminism has taught me to be the woman I am and the women I want to be and it will keep on teaching me everyday. Feminism is extremely important because it has changed the world and it is still is to this day and it will continue to change the world and fight for its beliefs. Feminism has helped the lives of so many people mostly women, because once women weren't allowed to do many things. We were treated bad and we weren't respected or viewed as equal to men. But the women of the past didn't have it, they fought for their rights and they were able to achieve them. Even today we are still fighting for our rights. Such as fighting for abortion rights, as in America majority of the states have outlawed abortion. Preventing women to chose what they can do with their own bodies. This law doesn't prevent any abortions, it only prevents safe abortions. We need feminism to help us fight this battle so women can have the rights to their own bodies again and so that no one can tell them what they can or cannot do with their own body. Unfortunately that isn't the only battle that is being fought. There are lgbtq+ issues, body positivity issue, ethnic issues, racial issues, and even more and we need feminism to be able to fight these battles. I fell in love with feminism right away and it mostly because of my mom. She is a feminist who inspired me to be a feminist. The first moment that made me realize I was a feminist was when my mom told me she didn't change her last name to my dads. She kept hers, and I admired that so much, I loved how my mom didn't need to change her last name to show she was married or that she belong to anybody. So thats when I decided that when I get married I wouldn't change my last name either. I wanted to keep my name and not change it for anybody, I din't want to let a part of my self go. After that I learned as much as I could about feminism. I learned about so many issues not only about women but different races, sexualities, religions. I learned two important things, that no one should be forced into anything, everyone has the right to chose and that nobody should be ashamed of who they are. That became a rule I lived by and it's how I try to impact those around me and my school. I chose to always stand up to those hurting others and for those who can't stand up on their own. In my school I always try my hardest to make sure that if anyone is sad or depressed, feel important and seen, because that's feminism to me. Making sure nobody is alone.