I fight to protect the people in my city so that they can live. So they can relax on their couches without wondering when the next bomb is going to go off. Hang out with their friends without wondering if there's a gang of muggers around the next corner. Have kids without wondering if they're going to live long enough to go through puberty. Make friends without wondering which ones are going to survive into adulthood. So they can do something with their lives besides try to escape. So the next generation can have a better childhood than I did.

And I plan to survive to be a part of that life, too. I want kids, friends, lovers, a yard I can't seem to keep flowers alive in, a dog I have no idea how to take care of. I want to try and fail at things that won't leave me bleeding to death in some psychopath's basement, because that's what normal kids do and I grew up thinking it was all impossible for me.

I want everything I was never allowed to want for myself.