30-day challenge #2: What define us Over one year ago I watched on YouTube one of the best speeches I have ever seen that made me cry my eyes out. It is named as “How do you define yourself?” by Lizzie Velasquez. Lizzie Velasquez is a 29-year-old woman born with a rare syndrome called Marfanoid–progeroid–lipodystrophy, which does not allow her to accumulate body and gain weight. Also, she is one-eye blinded. At the moment she was born the doctors told her parents she would never do anything by herself. They, however, only wanted to take her home and raise her up in the best way they could. Growing up in that supporting family was very important to her life. At the age of 5, in her first school-day, she realized she was different from the other kids. She was treated as if she was a monster. That is when her life started to be surrounded by bullying. In her preteens, she would wake up every morning, look in the mirror and wonder what it would be if she could just scruble that syndrome off. She hated her legs, her face, her arms, herself. One day she saw an eight-second video labeling her the ugliest woman of the world. It had over 4 million views and a huge amount of comments mocking her and telling she should rather kill herself. After crying a lot, she decided to make it good. From that day on she realized what defines her is up to her. She is the driver of her life. She wanted to be a motivational speaker, and she did it. She wanted to write a book, and she did it. She wanted to graduate from college, and she did it. She sets up goals and go for it. This woman inspires me to be always kind to other no matter what, to be brave, to dream and set up goals, and work my butt off to achieve them.