imagine my true colors
going into my freshman year of high school i decided that i was tired of being a theater kid nobody, and i wanted to be more popular, with more friends. for the first month i tried as hard as i could to be somebody i wasn’t. i treated my ‘old’ friends horribly and after that month i couldn’t do it anymore. so i stopped.
since that day, i have tried my best to just be myself. i did theater, i did choir, and to my amazement, i eventually got elected to the student government. all for just being me.
going into college i didn’t want to make the same mistake i did going into high school. so i didn’t. i was me, i did theater, i did choir, i was an intern for the admissions department, i made a fool of myself regularly in front of prospective students, and it felt great.
my second year of college i ran for the student body president, and i lost. but that was ok with me. i ran my ‘campaign’ with posters of Legos, Play Doh, and Crayola Crayons, and gave a killer speech that people remember to this day. if i had done things differently, i may have won, but i didn’t want to do that.
now that i am back home, i frequently run into people from high school, or middle school, and after hanging out with/talking to them, the general response is: “you are the same guy i remember from school, only older.”
i love that response.
with every interaction i have with anyone in my life i don’t feel like i’m any different around anyone as opposed to someone else. i am me. and for the most part, people accept me for that. yes, there are those who don’t like me, but i don’t feel the need anymore to change myself to make them like me.
i enjoy theater, i love tv musicals, i love dark comedy, i love singing, i love making random public lip dub videos, i love dancing even though i’m not good at all, i love making people laugh, i like my alone time, i enjoy hanging out in large groups, i love mountain dew, i really do enjoy shopping.
in general i do not consider myself to be a very social person, but i can be. i enjoy going out and hanging out, but i do not mind just staying home by myself watching my shows.
i am myself, and no one will ever be able to take that away from me, ever.






