Andrew Bergen

I'm 24, I'm confident, Happy, and have nothing to loose. I'm Focused, and essentially, I come first. I am not your typical guy. I have self respect. I respect others as I do myself, women/men, gay/strait, dead/alive. I have my flaws, and am in the works like the rest of us. I am wise, not because I know a lot, but because I have respect for life. Life is not guaranteed, life is like nature, you don't have control over it. Because of this philosophy, I live life without regrets. I started out with nothing, I am working on building my empire from scratch, so I don't have much materialistically. I am a typical man, and like every man, I have things that have been genetically infused in my genetics before birth. A few things this consists of. I am jealous, and that makes me territorial of what I invest time, heart, and sweat in. I am a prick, I'm outspoken, brutally honest, and if your not confident, strong, and with a sense of humor, I will hurt you. I am always in control, I will sacrifice comfort, and safety, for control if I need to. Those things can not be changed, it is what a man has little to no control over. Things that make me uniquely different, is that I am a sympathetic person. I feel peoples emotions, and am very in touch with my own. I can only thank my mom for this next one. raising me, meant she had to accept me naked, and raw. There were no filters, like an untrained dog. But she was the #1 teacher in my life. She struggled for 18 years to raise me, and her struggles paid off. She taught me the unique ability to be a gentleman. Because of my mother, I am able to dress being a male, with a more pleasant look and feel. I am ultimately still a male, and as a male, are traits that come with it. Nothing is going to change what's underneath, what is in my blood, what is in the very fabric of my genetic makeup. I want to shed light on the mapping of my upbringing. I was born premature, 2&1/2 weeks early in Anchorage, Alaska. I don't remember much of the first 4 years of my life in Alaska. Somewhere along the way my Dad, a plumber in the air-force, was transferred to an Air-Force base outside of Las Vegas. My Mother and Father packed up, and moved us to a neighborhood a few miles away from Nellis Air-Force base. In those 4 years, My brother Matthew, and brother Buddy were Born. Matthew being a year younger than me, And Bud being 4 years younger, obviously made me the oldest. Somewhere between the year 91 and 95, My mother and father got a divorce. My dad moved to Iowa where his family was and blipped off the radar till later in my life. My 2 brothers and I watched as our mother struggled to feed us and pay the bills. With child support not being paid, and My Mom being to mentally incompetent to work jobs from time to time, she would loose them, and we would pay for it. From the year 95 till about the middle of the year 2000, it was a struggle, but to us kids, it was life, nothing more than a normal life everyone lives. around late 2000, we were packing up and leaving for Petersburg, Alaska. We grew up in Alaska for the rest of our childhood. I never did fit in, I struggled to get along with my mother and my grandparents. Seemed like the older I got the more I hated everyone and being there. My father started communicating with us when I was around 16 years old. He was highly immature and didn't have a lot figured out at that point, but as the years went by, we all grew up. Dad had never been father material, but he was my dad, and I wanted out of Petersburg, I was growing out of the safety net my mom kept me in. My father flew me out of Alaska to Iowa when I was 18, and I fell in love with the state. I also learned where I got a lot of my attributes from. I was more like my dads side of the family then I ever knew. After going back and forth from Alaska to Iowa, not sure what I wanted, or who I was. I was 21 and it was time to make choices for myself, and stop doing what my Mom and