You know the saying "You don't know what you've got till it's gone"? Actually, I'm finding that out as I write. Today is the first day where I will no longer be able to see my best friend. I woke up this morning to the sun shining in my face thinking that it would be a normal day but couldn't help to notice the photo of him up against my wall and how it soon hit me that he wasn't here anymore. As I kept on thinking why I felt so many undefined emotions, it occurred to me that a piece of me, Alejandro D. would leave an impression on my life that no one else could imitate or replicate.
             Not only was Alejandro an incredible friend but he was a leader, a role model, and my inspiration to become the best dancer that I knew I could be. Not knowing Alejandro yet, I began dancing in the eighth grade as an experiment to losing weight but then came to realization that dance had become something I was actually good at. As the year commenced I began to work real hard towards the audition for the school of my dreams, New World School of the Arts and prayed to get accepted as an incoming sophomore. New World would soon be the place where I would befriend Alejandro. Before I knew it, my dreams had become a reality where I would then learn that I would benefit far more than just dance at my new school. The new year had begun and anxiety, fear, joy, zeal and determination would be chilling through my bones as I experienced a whole "new world". The first week of school had finally ended where I was now learning and growing amongst new friends and dancers. I was finally at a place where I was in the mass of peers who were just as passionate and driven as I. Then and there was when I first saw Alejandro. At 6'1, the tallest among the dancers, was one of the 14 male dancers at New World. Alejandro was a dancer who had such advanced grace and potential. Classes would become so purposeful with him b...