My name is Alec Mezera, and I am the youngest of three children. In my society, families only have one or two children within one family. Unwanted or bastard children are rare, but here I am. Due to my unexpectedness, my parents were unable to choose the way in which I look. I am what they call an old 'beauty,' but this I do not understand, and for this I am ridiculed.

I was born in the year 2097. It is now the year 2114. Age is a term no longer used by our society for those who are older than 18. People still age, but with today's technology age is hard to determine. Vanity is a common and dominant trait.

I am a junior in high school who can pass as a popular student due to my academic and athletic abilities. Many people like me. I should say that many people like me for the role that I play. If I were to act as I wish and as I truly am, life would be unbearable. The norm of the society that surrounds me can be summed up into a single word - selfishness. Success is measured in the ability to reach the top no matter how you get there. When you fall, pain doesn't explain the hardship that is to come. Revenge does.

I belong to one of the most prideful families of all the Fierezza Territory. I belong to the Mezera Family.

The history of the 'new' society is short, and not much before it is known...anymore. All that we are taught is that it was an era of pain and suffering that we were saved from. Today there is no more disease, no more hunger, no more war. It is a time of peace- at least in the physical view. We lost something when we lost the length of pain and suffering. Now, pain is short and rare and by choice. The simple term of choice evolved to exhibit desire and is expressed as so. This is the norm. I do not feel as if I belong, but as if I am one of them, the race of purity. The one minority that exhists today. The slaves of today's society.

Alec Mezera here. Something has changed. Nothing around me has changed because nothing ever changes so it must be within me. Maybe it has always been there. Maybe it remained hidden until the right time came. I am not sure yet what is happening, but I am going to attempt to describe what is happening to me. I hope to figure it out...soon.