At the beginning of my high school career, I was a completely naive child with the illusion that; racism, inequality, sexism, and corruption were all part of our past and only existed in history books, and to a much much milder extent (almost to the point of extinction) our lives. At this point in time I met some of the most influential people in my life, and from our first outing, the difference in beliefs became obvious. It began with a conversation about the wonderful weather and the sense that the time at that moment and place was infinite, this enchanting conversation rapidly turned into a bitter emotional conversation about the environment, our food, and corruption around our world. My slot in this conversation was that of the person …show more content…
). Throughout these outings my eyes began to open, I now spent my time doing research over unfair acts being passed, over incredibly important subjects that are not talked about in our media, over the baffling amount of corruption happening not only in the united states, but around the world. It was almost like being slapped in the face by the corruption that had been in front of me all along. 
 Four years after the initial interaction with my, now, closest friends, my beliefs and views about the world are completely different. I now spend a great deal of my free time with my friends attempting to ‘change the world’. Our next big ‘project’ is to collect money to buy blankets, toothbrushes, and essential needs so that around the time of Christmas we can go around and pass them out to all the homeless people that need that one act of kindness to keep going, to know that someone is out there attempting to look out for them. Of course we are aware we alone cannot change the world, but