You shouldn't have to change yourself to fit society, if you do you may end up losing yourself in the process. And I personally don't think it is worth it. Why change yourself, make society change instead. Times are different and the expectations society has should be too. Nobody should have to change to be accepted because that isn't really being accepted at all, it is just living a lie and nobody should have to do that.
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Should you change or should society?
Being yourself is something that we as Americans talk about being proud of, but most Americans change the person they really are so that they fit in with society. Most people nowadays cannot say that they have always been themselves for their whole lives, even though they may be happy with who they are now. At some point in every person's life they have changed to be what society wanted.
When you are a child you are expected to be a good kid, except when you are two to three because those are the "bad" years. Society has marked what is to be expected of us as teenagers now as well. Of course things are slightly different because times have changed and kids now do not do what they did fifty or so years ago.
You shouldn't have to change yourself to fit society, if you do you may end up losing yourself in the process. And I personally don't think it is worth it. Why change yourself, make society change instead. Times are different and the expectations society has should be too. Nobody should have to change to be accepted because that isn't really being accepted at all, it is just living a lie and nobody should have to do that.
You shouldn't have to change yourself to fit society, if you do you may end up losing yourself in the process. And I personally don't think it is worth it. Why change yourself, make society change instead. Times are different and the expectations society has should be too. Nobody should have to change to be accepted because that isn't really being accepted at all, it is just living a lie and nobody should have to do that.
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I don't know if all Americans change themselves to fit in.
ReplyDelete@Collete
DeleteI agree not everyone does, but most people you see do change themselves.
This is really good but I think that some times it is good to change for society to fit in if your personality is horrible. Like if they are robbers or "ghetto".
ReplyDelete@Tiffany
DeleteThis is very true, some people seriously need to change themselves.
You are very right. I don't think people should have to change themselves because they will lose their self mentally. However, I think it might be good to think about it from the opposite side.
ReplyDelete@Leslie
DeleteYes I can see how that would be different for the opposite side, like as Tiffany said, if your "ghetto".
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