| in class on friday, mr. watson was talking about how he keeps bragging to everyone about how great all our blogs are. a bunch of my classmates, including me, felt pressured. we wanted to make our posts look smart and nice, so when plenty people saw our blogs, we wouldn't appear stupid. basically, we wouldn't be ourselves. mr. watson told us not to do that and not change anything about our blogs. this got me thinking... why do people change so much for other people? because, when you think about it, life is all about changing for other people. when i'm around my mom, i don't drag my slippers on the ground, cause i know she hates that. i'm changing for her. when my friend natalia eats with me, she's making an effort not to smack her lips, cause she knows i hate that. she's changing for me. but, in both these situations, the people change because another person asks them too. what are the other reasons people change? ...the media? ...friends? ...what they're told/what they hear? ...what they see? ...self-conciousness? another question...if all we do in life is change for other people, every time we change... ...don't we become less and less of an individual? em...♥ |
Sunday, February 25, 2007
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Hi Emz! i think u hit the nail right on the head (that is the saying, right?) a lot of times we find ourselves acting like a different person around different people and a lot of that has to do with the pressure we feel to fit into the "mold" or "category" we feel these people want us to be in. or the fact that we want to be recieved well as human beings. there are many other reasons, im sure, but seeing as i dont have all day, and i am getting slightly distracted by my tv, i wont mention them. returning back to my point, a lot of times when we make the effort to please others, we forget about pleasing the most important person... ourselves. and of course we want to make other people happy too, but how can we do that when we don;t even make ourselves happy? and many times we lose ourselves in the mix of pressure we feel coming from others to be perfect. but how do we change that? idk. i guess we can just try to be ourselves, bcuz im sure people appreciate authenticity and genuine-icity (?) which i think you do quite well.
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