So, here’s the truth. At the end of my junior year of high school I created a persona. His name is Will Rise. He’s everything I want people to view me as. Cocky, Talented, Charming, Wealthy, and the life of the party. This worked for a good while. I became popular, I was successful, I made good money, I got most of the girls I wanted. Yet, recently my world has crashed around me. I have lost so many people I care about and have found myself feeling lost and alone. I am tired of being Will Rise all the time. From now on, that will be my stage persona, but with family and friends I want to try and be more of the person I really know I am. I am very compassionate, incredibly sensitive, and loving of everyone and everything. I cry very easily at movies and music. I love nothing more in the world than my family, especially my niece Vivian. I do music because I love it, not for the money. I want to get old and make juice and be a history teacher. I don’t want a bunch of random women. I want one woman who has been through the same issues I have. She doesn’t have to be prettiest woman at the party, but instead the woman that lights up a room with a smile and makes everyone feel warm and welcome. I want someone that’s down to wear as much black as me, be devoted to music as much as me, and drink as much as me, but at the same time wants a family, and lots of friends, and just wants happiness and love in her life. I am deep down quite a romantic who contrary to popular belief would trade any and everything for love. I would have you take everything from me, but please don’t take away that. I live for it, and gladly die for it. My quote to live by (and my next tattoo) is by Keats: “I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that” Amen.