New year, New me.

Something I want to fullfil next year is to genuinely be happy. That may seem very depressing but it's something I really wanna do. All the stress from many things just makes me over-think about stuff that isn't even happening.  I really just wanna start focusing on making myself happy and stop focusing on others. I'm not trying to be careless but I usually care more about peoples feelings more than mine. Like for example if i'm feeling down and so is my best friend than I would make it my job to cheer them up. I just really want to make it my job to make myself happy.  I want to be reliable for someone instead of me wanting to rely on someone. I'm not trying to be conceited I just want what's best for myself.

We believe in Equailty, yet Africans Americans are still being discriminated.

African Americans have been discriminated for their skin color since the 1800's. All we keep doing is assuming they're all bad. Discriminating someone for their skin color isn't right. Although some are bad, but almost every race have bad people. Assuming someone is a bad person for their skin color is disgusting.To figure out if someone is a bad person is to talk to them and actually getting to know them. Maybe instead of jumping to conclusions you can ask them a reasonable question.

You may have heard about the police brutality going on and Officer Cantwell, A berwyn police officer, was interviewed and was asked "How would you feel if your partner (on the job) shot someone for no reason, specifically African Americans" and his response was "it doesn't matter what nationality, gender, sexuality he had shot, I would arrest my partner, not only for my safety but everyone else's." Police men have kill at least 102 unarmed African Americans in 2015 according to mapping police violence.org.

Most police men have not been charged with any crime they committed against an African American. We should all be very disturbed that an unarmed African American is an astounding seven times more likely to be killed by American police than an unarmed white man. And if you aren't more disturbed that even if they're unarmed they are still murdered.

In conclusion we really need to stop assuming every African American is bad and try to at least problem solve instead of going out your way to murder an innocent person. This problem is happening all around U.S, we need to change this problem for the better. We absolutely need to change this society for the better.

Favorite Christmas gift I've ever got.

It wasn't necessarily a Christmas gift but it was a gift close to Christmas time. But it was last year like 2 months before Christmas. But my niece was born and she's honestly such a blessing to my life She makes me so happy even when I'm down. She may be a little pain but she still means the world to me. I remember when she was born I was the last person to be able to see her because there were so many adults before me, but I remember walking in and crying because of how happy and anxious I was. But really she is a big gift to my life.

My favorite quote

My favorite quote has to be "be the change that you wish to see in the world" from mahatma Gandhi. This quote means a lot to me because I want to see myself as someone changing the world for the better. And I want other people to feel that way too. I just think that believing in yourself is something that would make your life better. The world does need some change since so much negativity is being spread. I think I have a connection with this quote because I try believing in myself to change not necessarily the world but little things that really do need change. This quote just means a lot to me honestly, like I just see it as believing in myself.

Origin of my name

Well I don't really know why my parents named me this but I know i was supposed to be named something else but my dad decided destiny fit me. Now I know why I was named Anna which is my middle name, I was named after my grandma but her names spelled Ana which was how mine should have been spelled but my parents put it with 2 N's. My last name is my dads and obviously it's just past down from his side of the family. I sometimes get asked if I like my name, and I actually really do. I don't really know lots of destinys and I think it's a unique name. I don't know if i like my middle name as much as I do with my first name but I do love my grandma so I wouldn't really ask for anything different. Lastly I don't have a problem with my last name, I actually really like it.

What am I thankful for?

        Well I'm thankful for a lot of things actually, so i'll tell most of the important ones, I'm very thankful for my mom, she's been so strong even after everything we've been through, and she shows me I can be very strong, I'm also very thankful for my siblings, they showed me I can do almost anything. So I'm just very thankful for all my family. Now I'm also thankful for my friends for always being there and keeping me so happy. Now you would think I'd be just thankful for people and that's almost right. See I'm very thankful for bands, and well, music in general, cause it's helped me through so much, they let me know that sometimes it's okay not to be okay, they let me know that not everything will turn out bad, and that things will get better in the end.