Why We Shouldn T Be People
Victor Rodriguez
12/17/13
CP English 11
P.7
Why we shouldn't be someone we're not We all have a personality, but several of us have multiple. Why is it that so many of us have more than one? Could it be because we want to seem nice to other people when we present ourselves, or because we want to hide one side of our personality from people and show off the other? Well, this is the case for many of us.
We all want to fit in with a group of people and be accepted. Like how Tarzan wanted to learn how to be a gorilla in order to be a part of the family. For that reason, we pretend to be someone "cool", as people say, and try to change the person we really are just to be a part of a group where we want to be accepted. …show more content…
This shouldn't just be applied to a couple of locations, it should be applied everywhere and anywhere we are. Another reason why we should be who we really are is because your friends could think that you are a certain kind of person, but turn out to be someone they didn’t know about. This is what leads to losing friendships.
What most people do is be a different person when they are at school and a whole other person when at home. For example, at school you talk with the friends you have, and have a good time together, during lunch and sometimes after school, but when you’re at home, you suddenly change your image and ways of acting. You don’t talk as much as you usually do at school and also the way you talk. Many of us do this because at school we can act the way we want to and are free of parent supervision, unlike when we are at home, where we have to speak in a different manner.
So if we show our friends and other people who we really are, we will be comfortable with ourselves, without having to be some other person when we are with
12/17/13
CP English 11
P.7
Why we shouldn't be someone we're not We all have a personality, but several of us have multiple. Why is it that so many of us have more than one? Could it be because we want to seem nice to other people when we present ourselves, or because we want to hide one side of our personality from people and show off the other? Well, this is the case for many of us.
We all want to fit in with a group of people and be accepted. Like how Tarzan wanted to learn how to be a gorilla in order to be a part of the family. For that reason, we pretend to be someone "cool", as people say, and try to change the person we really are just to be a part of a group where we want to be accepted. …show more content…
This shouldn't just be applied to a couple of locations, it should be applied everywhere and anywhere we are. Another reason why we should be who we really are is because your friends could think that you are a certain kind of person, but turn out to be someone they didn’t know about. This is what leads to losing friendships.
What most people do is be a different person when they are at school and a whole other person when at home. For example, at school you talk with the friends you have, and have a good time together, during lunch and sometimes after school, but when you’re at home, you suddenly change your image and ways of acting. You don’t talk as much as you usually do at school and also the way you talk. Many of us do this because at school we can act the way we want to and are free of parent supervision, unlike when we are at home, where we have to speak in a different manner.
So if we show our friends and other people who we really are, we will be comfortable with ourselves, without having to be some other person when we are with