Colleen, 33, Dallas, TX - Photographer

What are your personal hopes for the future?

My personal hopes for the future are that I’m able to pay off my [graduate school] student loans in a timely fashion because they are fucking killing me.

What are your hopes for America’s future?

And my hopes for America, I suppose that people will maybe learn how to see things from someone else’s perspective. I think that we’ve become a country of people who are entirely too egocentric and even in their day-to-day lives don’t take into consideration other peoples feelings when they make decisions. And I think if they started small by doing that in their day-to-day lives maybe in the bigger picture they could take other people into consideration before we make the big decisions…and obviously that’s true for politicians on the grand scheme. I see it everyday. I can’t believe how selfish people have gotten. Really, really, selfish. And how unaccustomed to sacrifice people are. It’s the little sacrifices that really add up. And if you can’t sacrifice for your partner or your best friend or someone you love, or a job that you care about, if you can’t make little sacrifices there and little compromises then how can the entire country do the same thing and change the worlds’ perspective of us and get out of a war that we don’t need to be in.