By Danielle Sheally

Breaking away from something that we are a part of or a certain group of friends that we talk with and hang around is hard to do.  It’s almost like we are attached to them like a lock to a locker.

Do not do something just because your friends are doing it.  Do it because you absolutely breathe it and love it.  For example, I know a lot of girls in high school participate in dance, but they get so attached to their dance team that they are apprehensive to have their own dreams and goals.

In this world right now, so many people are not happy.  So many people focus on the negative. We become so consumed with everyday life that we become who people want us to be and we go through some days miserable because we are not being our own role model.

My goal in life is to start my own modeling agency for girls and boys with disabilities.  I want them to be able to break their mold  of looking at themselves with their disability.  Instead, I want them to look at themselves as fierce and fabulous individuals.  I want them to be able to look at their pictures with them out of their chairs or contraptions and be able to say, “This disability does not and will not define me.”

Though that is my goal, I want other individuals to be able to say to themselves,”Just because I am in this job or I am in this position does not mean I have to do this for the rest of my life.”  I want people to be happy when they wake up every day ready to go to their job.