My name is Sunnshyne Pariseena Young (the a is silent). My most defining characteristic to me is my art and my world view. 

I have the fundamental belief that all humans and their personalities and identities are just a sum of their experiences in life, once of course, you get past their base fundamentals i.e gender sex race… etc.  So when I am asked to list or describe the experiences that made me who I am it is hard not to be overwhelmed with the possibilities. However, after thinking on it for a bit and making a list of things I think I have narrowed it down to two things that pretty much shaped me. One that mostly applies to the past me and another that applies best to the present and future me.

 

Number one: My sister’s death.

When I was very young, around 3 to 4 my sister died. I was at that stage in child development where I understood death to some capacity but still could not quite grasp the, they are never coming back part of it. Though that dark and very real realization at such a young age is what I believe led me to be such and frank yet somewhat flippant person, along with my very deep-rooted middle school depression that peaked with a failed suicide attempt. I feel that I have a somewhat positive friendship with death now, to the point in which I just live to live, I live just to experience what life is because at the end of the day, that is all we are promised, everything else is a bonus and a privilege. So I have fun and I work hard and I love and I lose, and no matter where I am, I am content, for that is to me, what it is to be alive. 

Number two: Getting back with my Ex (much happier)

In my sophomore year of high school, I transferred to Redan High School, where I remained until I graduated in 2019. In my sophomore year, I met a boy who was a freshman and an absolutely amazing artist. Unfortunately, things didn’t quite aline if its any help to understand, he’s a Cancer and I am a Capricorn. He was happy-go-lucky and I was still recovering from middle school. He was a beautiful person and I felt ugly and broken. Thanks to him accepting the breakup with such grace we remained distant acquaintances. Then about 3 and a half years went by, and I was having a Halloween DnD party. We had previously been talking more though video chat but hanging out in person made me take an interest in him again. Then I had a New Years’ party and we stayed up till 6 am (2 hours before he had work) talking. The worse part is we were barely even talking about anything we were really just talking to talk because of how easy it was. We started dating officially on January 7th of 2020. We’ve been together for 9 perfect and amazing months and we’re are officially engaged. He’s changed the way I perceive the world, things are a bit more bright, asperations are a bit more clear. No matter what’s ahead I know well be okay because we have each other. 

My dream is to be an art teacher and/or social worker and a mother. Perimeter is helpful in this journey because it’s very affordable and will help me seamlessly transfer to the GSU Atlanta campus. 

Goals are always such a tough topic for me to speak on because it is hard for me to conceptualize short term goals. Life just moves so fast. I have to make time to make plans to plan about making time, a bit of a catch 22.  However, when it comes to any literature or writing or ELA based class my goal is to learn and enjoy it because I enjoy reading and I enjoy writing so very much. In my time as a perimeter student in general I just want to enjoy the campus and the people here.