Nothing Special Alice came from a combination of a poem of mine called "nothing special" and Alice in Wonderland. I, myself, am obsessed with Alice and her trips through her own imagination, and especially with the Cheshire Cat. There have been many times that I have asked my dear friends to draw me my own sketches of this eccentric, nonsensical feline. I also quote him very often.

 My reasons for liking him specifically comes from my own feelings of not being "all there" and how I have my own eccentricities as a person. My life is lived turvy topsy. I don't think as most people do. I also like to delve into the personal motives of other people and even myself as I'm extremely into the psychological aspects of the human mind. A person I look up to in that area is Kay Redfield-Jamison, an American Clinical Psychologist who specializes on Bipolar Disorder, or Manic Depression.

 Another side of myself is that I'm a writer. I started writing poetry and short stories when I was six years old and never stopped. Now I've written probably over 1,000 poems over the years, written several short stories, and started about 30 novels.  Not all of these have survived over the course of moving from place to place or my constant scrutiny of my own style, but each and every piece means the world to me, and is as precious as my own child.

 I graduated from high school in 2009. I've always been an exceptional student and have recieved several awards on honor rolls, participatory awards, and awards on my goal orientations. I, like many other students, have had my own set backs in school, and it caused my grades to slip in my upper classman years. Those factors also had somewhat to do with my constant roaming the United States from place to place. I ended up enrolled at an alternative school in Thief River Falls, Minnesota. I had never had experience with an Alternative school in my lifetime before that, so I'm sure you understand my hesitation on going to one, but it was promised that it was the only way I could make up the 9.5 credits I needed to gradutate on time with my own class, so I did it. Looking back...it was one of my favourite of schools that I've gone to.

 On to my political issue stands...

 Gay Rights: I'm bisexual. Even if I was not I would still feel the same way. Everyone deserves to love who they want to love. No one can control their heart, and no matter what you do you can't control it anyway. They aren't hurting you, so buzz off. The government was based on two things relating to this issue that stand out to me.

1. We were a country based on the same rights for every person. That means no race, sexual orientation, religion, mental disability, or anything that sets each individual apart should matter. So why let one set person marry, and not another.

2. The government was based on seperation of church and state. So what does religious views matter on a subject that has nothing to do with religion?

 Poverty: I could go all out on this one. It would take around 40 billion dollars to meet the world's basic needs, but so much more is spent on luxury items. What would it kill to make a sacrifice? More importantly...who does it kill...when you don't?

Global Warming: The world goes through cycles. She's not called Mother Gaia for nothing, but we don't help. Go eco-friendly people. It won't kill you.

 For the most part I'm an Objectivist. (If you do not understand after the following, then you can go to the Ayn Rand Institute on the internet and look for yourself.) This means I believe essentially in a few things:

1. Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man's feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.

2. Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man's senses) is man's only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.

3. Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.

4. The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.

If there is a religion that even rings close to my own, I'm not sure, so ordinarily I call myself an Agnostic.  This is, in fact, what I truly believe:

1. Essentially I believe in reincarnation. In each lifetime we choose, before we are born, what we will do, what we look like, what we will grow up to become, who we will meet, and even the day we are born which influences our astrological signs and personalities.

2. The people we have strong bonds with (negative or positive) are our soul mates.

3. We go through each life to learn a specific lesson.

4. Sometimes our lives tend to bleed into each other. This is where our prodigies come into play. The talent that they develop during a former lifetime come into their new lifetime fully developed. Also if someone may die early in one lifetime they may feel a slow development in their maturity level past that age in the next life.

 But no matter what I may think the reality of it is that I wasn't there at the creation of this earth. There are many things I do not understand, and I know nothing. If there is a god, I know and hope that he respects my ability to think outside of a box instead of blindly following other's leads into a world of hatred and ignorance. I would hope he would see that I try to live my life and love people in my life the way he did. Which is what he asked everyone to do. Of course, if there isn't and there's just everything in random accordance...then well, what I think would not matter.