Vanessa Liang

My life matters because I don’t need anyone else to tell me it does. I know so. That is the attitude that I believe everyone should have in order to be a truly liberated individual from our political, cultural, and social influences. If we try to find our identity in none other than ourselves, we start to rely on outside factors that cloud our own meaning for our existence in this world. While contributing to and forming good relationships with society is a good thing, I encourage people to first be in a good relationship with themselves so they won’t be easily swayed by any political, cultural, or social factors without thinking first. I like to think that I don’t live or struggle for anyone else none other than myself. People need to find their own individuality or we will all just be cattle blindly following because it’s conventional. We all have a voice, use it.