The One, The Only, Selena Quintanilla-Pérez

                   

If I could meet anyone it would be Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. She's been someone I've always wanted to meet, but sadly she died so young with so much of her future and career yet to come. She has been an idol for me, a Latina who was successful, who was loved, and a girl who started out doing what she loved at a young age.  I would love to just sit down with her outside,watching a sun set, in Texas. Nothing more, but to conversation with her about her life and what would have been her life. Selena would be worth meeting because I can imagine that talking to her would make me feel inspired to doing something with my life and impact the world, I can imagine that her words and what she would have to say would be so inspiring to me. She was loved by so many people, even though she had to fit so many standards that would make her "successful", she tried to fit some of them, but it was never a big deal, she just was herself and was happy showing the world what she was proud of. She had to be more American than Americans, more Mexican than Mexicans, was criticized because she was a young woman in the music industry. She wasn't the perfect woman, but she was perfect in her own way, she emphasized how being yourself and doing what you love, no matter what people say or think of you, can lead you to your own happiness. And I think that if she was still alive today, she would be making that very clear to little girls and boys. That's why I would want to just sit and listen to what she would tell me.