I have been drawing
as long as I can remember since I was about five or six, I have drawn constantly
since then. I express myself deeply in most of my drawings. When I was
younger I was using marijuana and alcohol so most of the pictures I have
drawn with a cigarette or something, just chilling.
I left home because me and
my mom were not getting along to well. I am here at Covenant House to do
what I got to do, so I can get on my feet. I am trying to change my lifestyle,
before I always liked to smoke and drink and so I figured that was what
was bringing me most of my problems cause I was always drinking, breakfast,
lunch, dinner and in between snacks. I would spare change just to get something
to drink.
I had a lot of peer pressure,
I did not fit in a lot of the time and the pressure was not from my peers
but from my step father, he is the one who turned me on to smoking marijuana,
I was 10 years old. When I was in drug counseling I would tell the counselors
that it was my friends who got me started and they would always tell me
to stop lying because I was lying to myself, I did not want to say anything
because I did not want anyone to know it was parent that got me stared
smoking marijuana. When I was 12 me and my friends would go behind a tree
in the back of the school and get loaded and go to class.
In the future I may want
to be an art teacher, I had this art teacher when I was six years old she
really inspired me she said stand for what you believe. Everything that
she did I was like I want to be able to do that one day, she drew a picture
of me and I kept that picture for along time, it inspired me. I want to
keep moving forward, not go backwards, I always tell people who say it
is not good to live in the past, that it is good to remember the past because
by remembering things from your past it helps you get to the future.
I would like to say to people
that if you see something that you really want to do, and really truly
believe that you can make it, stick with it, don't give up because if you
give up it is just another way of saying I could have done this, I could
have been that, that could be me, just be true to yourself and follow your
dreams and take one day at a time. Just don't give up, no matter how hard
times get, keep going and keep your head up. |