chris price personal statement

I would like to say that I'm this perfect candidate, but I know that I'm not. Even though I am smart, there are people  who are ten times as smart and even though I'm dedicated, there will always be people who are just as committed. I think the quality I have that sets me apart from most other people is: I listen. Yes, I know that everyone can listen, but that doesn't mean they hear. I know that I am the guy who actually takes the time to hear what people are saying. I attribute this quality to my experiences of always being the runt, the little guy, or little man. I have had to use my brain skills to do what was expected of me instead of brawn. I have always been the small, dainty, gay boy in a world of strapping young mountain men, which put me at a rather large disadvantage. My dad always wanted a daughter, but just not in a boys body. He said that he ways happy with me just the way I was, but that is just another parental cliche that he threw at me to make me think every thing was alright, but these strapping young men let me know all too well that under the surface not all ways right. I guess that's just because I scared them being different and all. I know now that being different isn't always looked upon in the best of ways, but it is the right thing to do. Then I found Band somewhere that it didn't matter who or what you were. I made a family with entire strangers, and the new girl from Mississippi. She showed up very subtly and hid in the corners with her books and Pokemon, until I met her, and we shook my little town up in the best of ways. It was us against the world. I eventually met her mother, who treated me more like her son, than my own mother. I slowly came to know all of them and we got close. That's when the Military thought it was a grand idea to move them away.  I haven't seen my red headed, hot blooded, open minded buddy since. Now I'm fight this war all alone, and I haven't lost, but it is an uphill struggle to maintain. I have no intention of just surviving senior year, but going out with a bang!