As I sit in bed wondering about my childhood, I realize how good it was, how I had, well i still have a great mother who never pressured me into being something I wasn't. I was able to go out when I wanted to and spend time with my friends. How I was able to walk in the streets without thinking 'am I going to get raped.' I see the stuff going on in the streets and I can picture how if I was young girl now, how my life could have turned out totally different. Kids these days have so much pressure and yeah, we had the cigarettes and the alcohol and even marijuana but it wasn't as bad as it is now and maybe for that reason my mom always trusted me into knowing the difference between the good and the bad.

I think back at my youth because I see kids now, growing up in a world filled with drugs, hatred, violence and I'm honestly scared for them. I say I want to make a difference in kids lives, to make sure they don't fall into the statistics of high school drop outs, teen pregnancy, and drug abusers. I want to promote education, love, sports, and self-esteem, and while Yes, i have a plan to make this happen I can't help but wonder has society fallen so far down to stand up again? Has ignorance taken over the world that its no longer repairable? Have we lost our way that our kids will never be able to come back?

I say I want to work with kids but how can I can work with them if most of the time that a kid is lost in the world, it goes back to the parent. Should I be working with parents as well? Workings with parents is not an easy task because they have already established a set mind of how they view things in the world, but what good would it be if I spoke with a child and undermined what their parent say. It's a new era out there from when I was growing up and maybe working with both kids and parents is what needs to be done to try and get back to a world where we don't have to be worried who our kids are with because we know they are saved. That we know they wont be influenced into doing something they don't want to do. A world where kids feel safe to walk down the streets.

I want to make a difference in the lives of our youth and while yes I have a dream to change the world, I can only do one thing at a time and so I'm going to start with my family and making sure that our kids can grow up knowing they can always talk to us and that they don't have to do anything they don't want to do.