The Face Behind the Blog (Part 2: Everything Else)

     Now that I hope you have a clearer mental picture of me, I will briefly explain everything else about myself- more specifically though, my personality. After this, I will hardly ever talk too much about myself, considering that there might just be about a trillion other much more important and interesting things. As for my personality, I cannot really pick another word. Some people might describe themselves as outgoing, shy, crazy, or something like that, but in actuality, everyone is some or more of those things at one point or another. By choosing to describe myself as curly, I am saying that just like everyone else, I am a bunch of different things tangled together that eventually frizzes to constitute me.

     I realize there might be millions of people in the world that are very similar to myself. There might be another person in this world that is exactly like me, according to the Doppleganger Theory of quantum physics! Yet, every feeling, emotion, substance, object, etc. has an opposite. That is an undeniable fact of life that proves itself everyday. I am shy, yet outgoing, quiet and loud. I am rational while being extremely spontaneous. I love peace and quiet, and yet I crave chaos and disorder. Being one of these things makes me want the other, and yet that is what makes me a person, sane and human.
     I read a few lines from The Book Thief by Markus Zusak that explains perfectly what it feels like to exist as a human. It describes exactly what it is like to grow up as a Hispanic female teenager in this society, but as well as the merit and worth of every person despite their appearance and inward attributes.  
     "To most people, Hans Hubermann was barely visible. An un-special person... Somehow, though, and I'm sure you've met people like this, he was able to appear as merely part of the background, even if he was standing at the front of a line. He was always just there. Not noticeable. Not important or particularly valuable... The frustration of that appearance, as you can imagine, was its complete misleadence, let's say. There most definitely was value in him, and it did not go unnoticed..." (pg. 34).
     So with this I would like to end by saying that I am just like everyone else. Similar by flesh and blood, and the same by mind, spirit, and soul. Thank you for visiting my blog, and hopefully I entertained you enough to come back and read some more.

New Year's Resolutions

     A new year is finally here! And with it comes new opportunities, challenges, and joys. I cannot help but reflect over last year, and remember all the good and bad. The terribly bipolar weather of Illinois, the recession, the unjust illegal immigration law of Arizona, and of course, the immense amounts of work in which my teachers took particular joy in watching their students suffer. All that, though, takes a back-seat to the amazing memories of my family, friends, Icy Sixteen birthday party, being a teenager, high-school, and most importantly, growing mentally and expanding my knowledge in writing and of different people and cultures. It is incredible how much a person can grow in just 365 days, but I sure grew plenty. Not only in knowledge but height... I'm finally five feet!

     Of course, in redundant tradition and in joyful hope, I have decided upon three things in which this year I will conquer and rise against. First, I plan to improve myself in what is my most cherished and held belief: the liberation of humanity from the clawing grasp of modern society and white European supremest views enforced for hundreds of years by writing and education. I plan to study about other cultures, in particular Africans and Asians. My second resolution is to gain more self-confidence. I would say I am pretty skinny and I guess attractive, but myself being of Spanish heritage, the usual insecurities which come from having curly hair and darker skin are deeply ingrained into my core. Finally, I plan to do better in chemistry. I love science, yet chemistry tends to be giving me a few problems.
     Overall 2010 was awesome, and since it's the first day of the new year, that old saying comes to haunt the new day: out with the old, and in with the new. I hope 2011 will be kick-butt!