My Name Is Brandon

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All throughout my life people have known my name. I have been described as a happy, nice, loving, and funny person. In my life, people have always come to me for advice. Whether for a shoulder to cry on or for comforting company. I have always been available for people and still will continue to be. Throughout my middle school and high school years, I started gaining a lot of respect and popularity for who I was: myself.

I was well known around my campuses and in life for how I treat people and what I do for others. This allowed me to have gained many personal awards and achievements in my student body classes. In the eighth grade, I was awarded for Best Personality out of my entire eight grade class and by my peers. In my junior year, my whole junior class - as well as teachers voted me as the Homecoming Class Prince. In my senior year, I was awarded one of the four Biggest Sweethearts in my senior class. It is great to stand out from others and feel a sense of belonging; feeling proud for being who you are and having everyone notice you for that. These awards to me meant more to me than just the spotlight in the yearbooks. For me, I was being recognized for being who I really was. All my acts of kindness and the way I am come from my heart.

I stand strong by my beliefs that everybody is beautiful and worthy of life. I believe that everyone should be equal, loved, happy, and enjoy life they live. My life is not above anyone else nor is my happiness. The job that I gave myself from an early age was to make sure wherever I was, I made this my reality.

The people who surround themselves around me thrive off of the positive energy I provide. I bring people together, I help solve problems, I spread awareness, and I do what needs to be done. I am very content and happy with the life that I live. I want nothing more than to bring what I can offer to everyone. People know of me and often seek me out. In high school people I did not know or have never met would say hi to me, and were very happy to do so. I don't have to know someone to show them love and happiness. One of my aunts who works in the area I live in tells me that at her work students would talk about me and how great of a person I was. While I usually do not like to brag, I am more than happy to share this. I am more than happy to serve as an outlet of conversation and to make others feel good. All this is said with good intentions. I am proud to be me and that I am being seen for who I am.

People that I don't even know say good things about me. I am just a well-known and well-respected public figure. I am more than happy to serve as a source of positivity and happiness for others. I love talking to people in general, but I love talking to new people and getting to know them even better. I am a great listener and I have so much empathy and sympathy for everyone.

If I can help others, I will do so. This ranges from giving someone a compliment, to holding the door for someone in need of help, to donating blood for others, to sacrificing my time to make others happy. Other people's lives are just as important as mine - even a complete stranger.

We are all human. We are all going through this wonderful thing known to us as life. It is definitely challenging at times. What's most important is that we help each other out and we love one another as siblings. There is too much hate and sadness that fills our world around us. Why create more? We are stronger together.