snotty military brat, but I call myself needy. Some may define needy as someone who is dependent on
others. I on other hand I give needy a new meaning. Needy to me means willpower and strength from
within and my action prove this theory. I honestly can't blame those who don't know me for calling
me those things because they don't have the slightest clue to how my life really is. In the mix of those
people is my mother who sometimes agrees with them.
form of self-expression. Then, two years ago, I felt the need to stop getting a relaxer. I think my hair is a lot
healthier without it. The thing that really flips my mother's stomach is my sexuality. I sometimes feel the
need to have a sexual relationship with another female. Not because I am "experimenting" as others would
say but because I need love too. My biggest difference is I don't look at race, gender, national origin, eye
color, etc. but who the person is. Besides everybody needs somebody. True, most of my actions are
against my mothers"Standards of Life" but I feel the need to live life to the fullest.
graduated from my high school at the age of sixteen, and I managed to miss more than six months of
school because I needed to have two operations, thanks to my need to pursue my track career. I now feel
the need to major in journalism and one day have my poetry published. But because I need to save money,
mainly for my Express and Calvin Klein wardrobe, I attend a local community college. Don't get me wrong,
Thomas Nelson Community College is a great school but it's kind of in my back yard. Soon my needs will
cause me to move out or go off to a big university, but until then I have no problem needing to live across the hall from my mother or sharing a bathroom with my twenty-two year old sister, who needs to move out.
have others cater to my every need, but I have the willpower to fulfill my own needs. I may be a spoiled
brat, but I treat others how they treat me and live my life, so I live my dreams.