“We’re all different. Especially him. But there’s something kind of fantastic about that, isn't there?” -Mrs.Fox. Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr.Fox”

This quote, for the most part sums up my life in a mere three sentences. I have always felt like the odd man out, I never truly felt content or fulfilled at any given moment of my life. I always felt the need to strive for something greater, and that something is an object I cannot see or feel and I do not have the faintest inkling of what it might be. To get to know me fully and personally one must begin with the three major aspects of life: family, school, and beyond. To begin I will start with my family. I am apart of a big traditional Mexican family. I have my mom, dad, three sisters, two brothers, …show more content…
We all followed the same predictable course. If your were in school, you would drop out or never make it past high school. If you weren’t in school you were either a teen mom or in a gang. The “You can grow up to be whatever want” attitude did not exist in my neighborhood, some of us never got the pleasure to grow up. The motto was more “Do what you gotta do”. For a long time I turned my back on where I grew up. I wanted to distance myself from them because I never wanted to end up like them. I became ashamed of my community, I was ashamed to be affiliated with them. When I came to Woodlands, I was reluctant to tell people where I live. My ideas of going to college and becoming someone great was just a dream. My dreams were ridiculous to my peers back home, they always made it clear I would never achieve this goal. For a while, I became ashamed of my family. No one in my family had ever been to college, I have only one sister who made it through high school. My oldest brother flunked out, my oldest sister dropped out, ran away and got pregnant. I did not want to be apart of this cycle. I wanted to be like the girls at Woodlands, so I started hanging out with