Okay, last week i posted a blog discussing the choices between right and wrong. This week I have decided to talk about change. Before I left my home town I kept telling myself, "This is a chance for a new start, you can make your self who ever you want to be." And I still think that, this is a chance for a new start, and I can make myself who I want to be. As we go though life we all make mistakes that we wish other people never knew about. But some things are inevitable, people will find things out about you that you wish they never knew. So when I came here no one knew anything about me, nothing was expected of me, which was nice. Before I left I was thinking to myself, which qualities of myself do I want to chance, because after all, I can be anyone I want to be.
Well when I got here, I acted the same way I did at home, my personality did not change, nothing about me changed, except my surroundings. For a while I was disappointed. I mean, I had planed to change, to become a new person. But I figured out something, If I had attempted to change everything about me, then it would not be the real me. Now will I change over time, of course I will, but it will not be because I forced myself to change. As we mature, we change this we can not help. But I'm glad we change, in fact I think I would be more disappointed in myself if I did not change at all while at college.
I guess what I am trying to say is to be who you are, be real. If I had changed like I thought I wanted to, I would be a fake. The person I would have changed into would not be me, but rather the person I thought that people would like me to be. So it may sound childish, we have all heard it a million times, but I am going to be me for me, I am not going to conform to just "fit it". Your best friends in life are going to like YOU for who YOU are, not what other people think you should be. Life is too short to conform just to fit it. Don't be caught in the lie that you have to fit into a certain mold to be accepted.
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For being so young you have grasp the idea of just being yourself and not who other people think you should be. I tell my daughter this every time she comes home from school and someone has made a comment about her purple hair. I have told her true friends don't care what you look like on the outside, but on the inside. Just be who you are and don't worry about what others think. I liked your blog alot.
I think that it is awsome that you realized to just be you before you did change. Because once you do change, it is so much harder to start acting like you again because people will notice the difference and will think that the real you, is the fake you.
I think everyone will meet the dilemma, and sometimes it is really hard for us to choose the right and left, well, to me, I am still working on looking for the truth and the righteousness. I believe you will strongly be yourself!
I appreciate you saying that Jared. When I came to MC, I thought the same thing, but I realized I am who I am, and i shouldn't have to change that for anyone.
some of my friends were all telling me that the getting to be known as something else is the good aspect of coming to college.
but i have come to realize that i am going to be me...if my friends don't like that then they are not truely my friends..so i think it is good to just be yourself!
I like your blog. It really does show maturatity that you have a realized that.
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