What separates me from my peers is the purpose I have with everything I do in life. I’m aspiring to be something larger than what everyone else would be content with. Ever since I was 5 years old, I would listen to my grandfather recite Dr. Martin Luther King’s speeches that he would present to thousands of people. As I became older, I took it upon myself to research all the things he did for other people rather than himself. He lived with such selfless values, in which, he wanted to not only cause change for African Americans but for the fairness and entitlement every American had. I aspire to live with the same purpose. To do more than what is asked of me, not because someone told me to. But because it’s what I feel needs to be done. I
