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I graduated high school in May 2017. I'm from Columbus, Ohio. My whole high school experience I witnessed struggle. Coming from a background dealing with poverty what would you expect. Dad didn't graduate high school. Mom graduated but couldn't keep a job. October 2017 I became homeless. Asking family members and friends could I stay with them. I was blessed enough to do so. I started college in the fall of 2017. Did so terrible I didn’t return back the next semester, I didn’t know I could have. A year passes. I been working like crazy at Taco Bell. I even got a promotion to manager. Was I happy? No. School was apart of my life, college was calling my name. I decided to apply to a college out of state. It’s August, 2018. I am now staying with my friend’s family. I have received an acceptance letter to The Kentucky State University. The catch was to sacrifice my life I was already living to go off and find the one that I deserve. The night I received my acceptance letter was the same night I decide to get on the greyhound bus and leave. I decided to tell only my friend’s family at first. I didn’t tell anyone else. Not my dad, my mom, no one. They wouldn't have understood, this was the chance for a better life. I remember the bus ride. I couldn't sleep. I watched as the landscape changed from flat farm land to hills. I finally seen real life hills. Something I have never seen before. As the sun was rising in Kentucky I asked myself did it rise the same in Ohio? I told myself it didn't. This sunrise was a sign. It was telling me a new journey was ahead of me. I was ready for it. The atmosphere was different. I wasn't surrounded by the oppressed anymore. I was surrounded by people who conquered their oppression. They turned theirs into something that could no longer control them, they control it. The people are genuine down here. They talk and sound different but don't we all do? I had a complete culture shock. It still hits me to this day that over a year ago I decided to do something that I wanted to do. Something to benefit me for my future, so that I can be great. I will be great. Over a year ago, I left my life to start a new one. With only $42 to my name. I call that a risk. I call that breaking cycles.