<p>please and thank you =]</p>
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<p>I live with my father and my mother in a house with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, and a 3-car garage, in a nice area with diverse people and rabid competitiveness, which we so graciously refer to as Anaheim Hills. The people here are, for the most part, successful, proud, and have money cascading from their pockets. By no means is my family poor or anywhere near poverty, however, we do reside near the bottom of the financial population in our area. Growing up in Anaheim Hills amidst a diverse population and a mass of competitiveness is certainly a privilege. A privilege that most everyone I know takes for granted. Where I come from things are expected, not necessarily earned or deserved, but almost presumed. I like to see myself as immune from this greed and selfishness, but regardless of my cognition of the circumstances I live in, I battle this underlying instinct for possession every waking day. This submission to peer pressure isn’t abnormal for a teenager but in an ideal world I’d like to see myself free from it. While many of my classmates expect a cellular phone, or shiny new BMW for their sixteenth birthday, or the coolest new jeans that just came out at Express, I expect, nor ask, for any of these things. The world I live in has come to show me that I despise the avarice and ignorant arrogance of the wealthy in my community and I have deviated from this social norm and purchased my own car with my own hard-earned capital from doing odd-jobs and earning interest on birthday money. This one purchase was the page-turner for me. I still take immense pride in this purchase because it was the one thing I wanted my entire life and I was able to pay for it myself. I don’t want to be reliant on my parents or anyone for that matter, I want to earn my way through life and build on my passions to achieve happiness. I do not want it given to me. This outlook has demonstrated to me that in order to achieve my life-long goal of one day being able to race cars, I will need a way to get there. Because It is a rather expensive, I will have to rely on a rather large income. To combat this issue, I hope to use the skills and knowledge that I will learn in college to establish and run a business in the automotive industry. The exact niche in which my company will deal is yet to be determined, however, I envision designing and producing high performance aftermarket upgrades. Essentially, my background has shown me vivid examples of who I do not want to be, and from this, I have derived a plan on how to become the person that I do want to be.</p>