I guess it would be best to start with some of the basics. My name is Luis and I’m seventeen years old. I live in Arizona and I like it here; I don’t really know anything else. My biggest passion in life is music. I know that it sounds cliché that a teenager would see music as their passion but I am really passionate about it. I’m a music junkie. I’m listening to music almost all the time and there isn’t much that I won’t be willing to add to my library. I love to hang out with my friends too. I don’t have many close friends but I do know lots of people. I guess you can call me a social chameleon. I am always hanging out with friends and I have friends everywhere. You’ll usually catch me walking around because I find it hard to stay with one group of friends for too long. If I’m not hanging out with friends, I feel alone and when I’m alone I tend to feel depressed even though I’m not. I love to meet new people but I’m usually really shy. When you first meet me I’ll just hang around for a while until I get comfortable with you. I seem awkward when you first meet me and I can enjoy that; awkward is fun. Once I get comfortable with you I tend to be loud and goofy. I enjoy making people smile and sometimes that means making a fool out of me but I don’t mind because I see life as a one-act show. You’ll never live again and if you are not willing to look like an idiot then you are missing in on a lot of fun. I try not to judge people. I have been judged a lot just by the way I look and by the way I speak. I hate it when people put me into some category because people “like” me tend to be a certain way. If I had let people tell me what I was supposed to be then I wouldn’t be where I am now. I wouldn’t be at the school that I am now and I wouldn’t be as happy as I am now. I believe that no one is born into anything. You are your own self and if you live in a poor neighborhood and you are expected to fail in life then it is your duty to break through those barriers and make a name out of yourself. Since we make our own lives I also don’t believe in the future. I know that sounds weird but let me explain. I believe that there is not a fixed future. There is not a predetermined life that you were born to live. No, I believe that you make your own future and that you can alter it with everything you do. It is your decisions that will shape that future. Therefore, I don’t worry about the future. If I cannot guarantee something then I see it as a waste of energy to chronically worry about it. I also don’t care about the past. Everyone makes mistakes in the past so I try not to hold anyone’s past against them. They were a different person then and they will be a different person later. Basically what I’m trying to say is that I try to live in the present. It’s the only thing we have. You cannot feel what you will feel tomorrow and you cannot feel exactly what you felt yesterday because things are never the same again. The present is all we have and I do not intent on not enjoying it. I’m not sure what else I can say. I can play 5 instruments and I love to write. I love to read and I love to be free. I have little shame and if you can’t enjoy having other people laugh at you or thinking that there might be something wrong with you then you probably shouldn’t associate with me.