Alis Volat Propiis All around me my friends knew who they wanted to be and who they were now. They knew what they wanted to go to college for and where. I, however, was stuck wondering what I wanted to be. The summer of my sophomore year and I was stuck in more ways than one. So lost in this life when it dawned on me how truly small I was in this giant world. All I knew was that wherever I went, I wanted to be remembered. I wanted to leave a smile on people's faces in 10, 20, however many years that went by. I wanted them to laugh when they told stories of me to their children. Isn't that what everyone truly wants though? Even though they may not say it? I wanted to fall deeply in love and have one of those cheesy high school romances that are rare in true life, but seen all the time in movies. A prince to carry me across mud puddles, to kiss me even when I don't expect it, someone who loves me for who I am inside and out; not just the outside.