I think my biggest life changer was trying to kill myself, and in a sense i succeeded. I had a horrid childhood, abused by my at the time Step father, and his family. Things like touching, and being locked in closets, beaten and a lot of similar things. And i was always bullied at primary school which lead to me being home schooled from age 12 onwards. When i was 14 my own grandmother kidnapped me and my younger brother, saying my mother is not worthy of raising us(she's one of those types that is really into religion) In my teenage years i felt very much alone, and that nobody understood me as a person, whenever i went out in the world i would be yelled at or have things chucked at me. And suppressing everything just pulled me down so much by the time i was 17 i tried to end my own life, my parents don't know this as i did it while on a work experience trip they made me go on. My heart stopped for a good 3 minutes after overdosing on pain medication. Now i say in a sense i succeeded because i don't look at trying to kill myself as a bad thing. I gained out of it a very new vibrant look on life and everything excites me from every touch, every sound, every smell, every piece of art i make or get the pleasure of viewing and then to be influenced by all of the things the world has to offer. I love and embrace life and the world whenever i can and i would never in a million years give up this scene of felling, love and respect i gained from those times. Out of everything i pulled myself up and out of my dark times, found a new love for art and started expressing myself digitally through my own pieces of art work. decided i wanted to do something with my life that involved my art work, so i applied to one of the very best art colleges in england, and graduated with the highest grades out of everyone in my year group. This lead me down the road to who i am, and where i am in the world today, a student studying digital media arts, for movies and computer games, with such a wide, but chilled laid back look on life that it often all seems more like a dream then anything else. --------- I think i rambled on a bit and a lot of the above read back as gibberish in some places, but i will leave it how it is, as i think it gets my life message across perfectly the way it is. Live everyday to the fullest, love who you are as a person and not who you think you should be, this world we live in has all of the inspiration you could ever need to be the most beautiful person you can be, love life, and life will love you in return.<3