#24B - Being Yourself

May 22, 2006

Friends Forever the importance of being friends

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING YOURSELF!!!

  • I think that the most important thing when your being with your friends or other people is being yourself!!!

Although being yourself is hard for some people and me sometimes you should still be yourself always even if you want to improve others sometimes acting like someone else would make that person think your weird.

I think that when someone says “be yourself ” it means that just act like what you think you should act like not to improve someone by being someone else, but being yourself!!!

Many people want to “fit in” with a crowd of people that are cool or popular by not being themselves. They pretend that they’re cool and mean to people who actually are being themselves whether or not they’ll “fit in” or not!

  • In my opinion fitting in would be hard because you have to please everyone by being someone your not. You pretend to critisize classmates that were you before you started to “fit in with the crowd”.

In our school there might be some people that are “the crowd” and people that want to be part of “the crowd.” I don’t think that I’m being myself, but then I don’t really realize it so I don’t really know. I think that that happens because the people that aren’t in the crowd wants to be friends with them because they are cool and popular.

For me since I don’t really know for me what being myself is I think that it’s really hard once you try to be in the crowd to be the way you are. It’s hard for others to be themselves when everyone else critisize them that what they want to be is either stupid or a dumb idea.

There’s alot of pressure on you whether to try to fit in or to be yourself and find friends that care about what you want to be. Real friends care about you, not telling you that you look ugly or say that what your wearing is short and they don’t tease you. They say encouraging things about you. There’s a lot of pressure, because your deciding if you want to change or be yourself. That’s really hard.


#17B - The Giver

May 15, 2006

The Giver Hello!!! This is the book The Giver.  It talks about a boy, Jonas, and how his life goes on in this community.  The community has elders that take care of it so that they are all the same and that they don’t receive any memories or feelings and if they do they have to take this pill each day.  In the community there are jobs and ceremonies.  Ceremonies is when each December comes the same aged children get older and have new rules.  Jobs is when you get to the ceremony of twelve you get assigned jobs.  Jonas the boy gets assigned The Receiver. It is a very important job.  He has to have all the memories of the old Receiver so he has to be trained.  He gets memories that the other people can’t ever know about.  He sees color first and then the old Receiver gives him memories of sadness, happiness, pain, love and memories that only Jonas can have.  In the community there is peace and they are seperated from the outside world and that no one outside knows that there are people living there.  I would not want to live there, because you don’t get to see your real mother, because birthmother is a job, so the baby won’t ever know their real mother.  You can’t make your own choices, and you won’t feel loved by your family.  There’s no warmth only sameness.  Even though there’s peace and no fighting or teasing there is also no real sadness, no real feelings.