Have a say in who you are.

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." - Victor E. Franki Holocaust survivor. 
             In our lives we have the choice to be who we are, think what we think, do what we do, etc. In today's society we live with so many influences on our daily decisions it's hard to have a voice for our own selves today. Sometimes the choices you make in your life won't affect you that much and other times they can change your life drastically either in a positive or negative way. We are the living testimony of the choices we make whether we made them on our own or we have influences on them to make them. 
       "We happen to life, life does not happen to us. Life is all about choices and taking responsibility to make those choices." - Neil Farber M.D. Phd from Voice your Choice. 
            It is my junior year of high school and from what people tell me, it is my most important year of high school. Colleges tend to look most at the junior year so this year will either make me or break me. The classes I'm taking this year I have chosen on behalf of them looking good on my college application.  I'm taking the hardest classes I can manage including pre-calc which a lot of students don't even take in high school. I also take part in crew and am co editor in chief of the school newspaper. 
      My life revolves around me making decisions since I have a leadership role to fulfill. I have to make decisions for the whole school paper and the weight is all on my shoulders, if I mess one thing up, the blames on me. Making decisions and choices is a really hard task to accomplish because there are so many options, that's why I always have to think things through thoroughly and make sure I'm doing them for myself and not for anyone else.