When I was 17, I was a stupid teenager who spent most of his time thinking of new ways to get drunk and party without my parents finding out. Malala Yousafzai is 17 and just won the Nobel Peace Prize. She is sharing the award with Kailash Satyarthi, but Malala is an inspiration and someone that all people should look up to and provides hope that you can grow up and not want to emulate Kim Kardashian or think that is someone who has it all. Malala began speaking out about the rights of women when she was just 11 years old. She was fed up with the way she was treated at school because she was female and the opportunities denied to her in a Taliban controlled area of Pakistan. Six years ago she survived a gunshot to the head when someone from the Taliban boarded her school bus and shot her. She was saved by British doctors who were in her town and flown to England where she still lives and attends school and still speaks out for the rights of women when it comes to education.
