Although I am of Indian origin, I was born in Michigan Detroit and was raised half in Eugene, Oregon and half in Plano, Texas. Though after living in Plano, TX until 9th grade I recently over the summer moved to Frisco at 10th grade. I value my Indian origins and culture, and yet, I equally hold some contradictory personal speculations towards the significance in some of the rituals we follow in terms of religion specifically. I was always advised to hold high morale and virtues in my life. I was drilled the fact that my core values are what defined me as a person and is what molded my personality, my character, my attitude, my habits, and most of all my future. The many cultural and family experiences I experienced as a child, such as the
