Myself, my heart, my country, I had first glanced at my country, and I mean really glanced at it when I was five years old. I was playing on the streets, looking up at the clouds, imagining they were something other than puffs of gas and water condescending into rain. I would imagine they were angels smiling down on me, or monsters with their mouth wide open, daggers as teeth. I would sometimes get scared when I saw those, thinking it was a warning and that if I stared at it long enough they would come down and get me, so I’d look away. I couldn’t help thinking this way, after all I was just a little girl and I hadn’t known that it was purely my imagination taking its toll.

   Once I saw Mickey Mouse and I smiled so widely, it was once my favorite cartoon character when I was young so I didn’t stop looking at it. And when it went away, I felt such overwhelming disappointment; I sang a song like I always did to cheer me up again. Anyway, I’m getting off trail, so let me start over again, as I was looking up at the clouds, thinking it was something other than puffs of gas, a car went my way.  I was so young and light that the mere wind of it speeding tires made me fall. I almost cried it was so close to hurting me; I was so close to being hit. I wanted my mother and father, I don’t know clearly what happened that day, it was a long time ago and I was in a place other then the place I am now, AMERICA, the freedom country. I was wearing a dress, red or pink I think (like I said, I don’t remember clearly) and I felt utterly alone. No one was around me, no one knew I might’ve been hurt or worse and that day I stopped being afraid, I was fearless. Id jump off balconies not afraid to break my leg, I climbed trees, roofs, and jump off, adrenaline rushing in my body. After that, other events happened that made me know I could only count on myself and if I needed help, to always pay back someone’s whose helped me, no matter what and to always follow the rules I had taught myself. That day I learned that fear would get you nowhere, that you couldn’t ever be afraid and if you were, don’t act like it. Make anyone who meets you for the first time knows that you’re not someone whose easily dealt with.