Christian Hammond

The Unconventional Healer

“I wasn’t born to be anybody’s ‘quientessential’ anything”. Was the sentence that came out of my mouth, as I stood before my 8th grade English class. I recall the subject matter being geared towards what our purpose in this world might be. I’m not really too sure what led me toward’s my dramatic monoglue moment. But I am pretty sure it had something to do with me being fed up with the expectations of the working class, before I could legally even be able to experience it. Not to mention I was almost sure John Hughes was somewhere listening in on me, ready to feel inspired to write another “coming of age” movie. This experience was just a taste of the transformative moment’s I was willing to undergo in order to appreciate, and value my authenticity.