Who Am I?

They have asked me this question about five times in a span of three days. Yet, I don't have a dignified answer towards this question. Well that is until now. Your name and your age is not a definition of who you are. People across the world have the same name you do; also many people in the world are the same age as you. The most common male name in the U.S is James, and more than four million people have that same name. So when you are asked, "Who are you", what is the answer. Well, I will give you my answer to that question.

I am an individual with a mindset that cannot be predicted. Usually you can tell what somebody is going to just by the way they act. However, in my case, that doesn't always happen. I look at different perspectives and can change my mind or view about anything in an instant, as long as it makes sense. So, you can also say that I'm not bias towards anything. To prove that, I always think that my work is never good enough. Many people say "Wow this is great and I did a great job". I never say that. I'm "OCD" towards my work so I never think its good enough. That is the reason why whenever I get a compliment from anything, I usually shrug it off because I don't ever think that it is true. So, in my mind, that is who I think that I am.

The thing that is most valuable to me in my life is my relationship with God (I didn't know if you meant objective feature or anything). I've went as far asking God to save me twice just in case he didn't hear me the first time. You can put that towards my "OCD" nature. Just like every human, I sometimes forget to pray every night, or I don't do enough to strengthen my relationship with him, but I try my hardest to make it strong with Him day in and day out.

I have different religious beliefs usually from the next person. I don't ever say that I am a Catholic, or Baptist, Protestant, Muslim, or any of the religions out there. What I say is that I am a firm believer in God and Jesus. I also believe what the Bible says and I usually don't try to interpret it unless there is an obvious interpretation. An example is forgiving your neighbor 70 x 7. So, I just say I believe in Christ and want to go to heaven.

I am a proud African-American and my whole family is the same. To realize what my ancestors had to go through to have the world as it is today is amazing. In my lifetime I will never be able to thank them enough because of the life I live today. I'm free to go to school, sit anywhere I want, eat anywhere I want with no penalty. So my cultural background is very important to me.

My hope in life is that I either want to do something I love, as my dream job is to work for EA Sports. Or, I want to be meaningful in life. What I mean by meaningful is that I want to inspire other people’s lives. I have yet to figure out how I am going to do this, but I don't want to leave this earth feeling like I didn't do anything to help the world grow. When I die, I want to leave the earth knowing that I did something that benefited the world as a whole.