Who are you? Are you who you think you are, or are you the person society says you are? What really defines a person? I used to have a clear idea of who I was, I thought of myself as mature for my age but preferred to hide that from my friends. I liked them to think I was witty and outgoing and just crazy but which of these are me?
Does your name and place define you? Or is society what makes you? You see I have a friend that says she says all that bravado she has is all pretend that on the inside she's just as insecure as the next person. But... is that really true? I'm sure at some point the two will end up becoming part of you, that in the end you are both... but then that just gets confusing as that that would mean that you would be contradicting yourself all the time leading you to be bipolar as you switch form one to the other.
Then there's what you do in situations, you could make yourself seem like the good guy but have the wrong reasons and then ou could seem like the bad guy even though to you it was what you thought was best. Take a 'criminal', say they stole money from the bank to help give their children a good life. Would you say that person was good or bad? And would your opinion really matter? Would the 'criminal's' opinion count?
I have no answer to this and am no where near finding it out and quite frankly writing just writing 3 and a bt paragraphs I have a head ache.So, what defines a person?
Monday 15 July 2013
Childhood Days
I know it's been said before: I miss being a child; I didn't care about what people thought and vain unnecessary things. I miss the naivety of being a child, being a child meant everything was striped down, all confusion and complicatedness gone. You didn't care about our appearance, who you were with, no worry about the future. And I hate how life has made us into creatures that worry, are confused and a complicated mess. I know that no one out there thinks there life is perfect, everyone has baggage.
But why do we have to worry? Why do we have to change? Is it a way of survival, something we've evolved to do? A child, any child, is pure and honest. It doesn't matter how they are brought up by and what they'll become, everyone as a child was straight forward and to the point. Personally I think we should get more advice from children than we should 'adults', yes they know better but a child has a fresh straight to the point mind.
I started to think this way as I've just had work experience. I was in a primary school working with reception and nursery and the saying 'stop acting childish' came to mind. These children there (in my opinion) we're better people than those older than them. Thy showed what they felt, they didn't hide anything and they we'e free. They said anything that came to mind and tried their best with everything they did.
This made me think of my younger self, how I used to run around naked (don't judge I was 3) and have no care about it. I was just being me. I made friends and trusted to easily, everything was simple and that made me want to stop 'growing up', at the age of 10 I think thats when the best years of your life have finished. Why does society make us into these insecure people? What is the point of second guessing ourselves?
So I ask you all to at the very least have one day (even maybe every other month) to just let go, I want you to run around as if you have no control over your limbs, ask that person out because you like them and tell them how you feel, do something just 'cause you want to and not care what others thought. GO crazy and relive your childhood days.
But why do we have to worry? Why do we have to change? Is it a way of survival, something we've evolved to do? A child, any child, is pure and honest. It doesn't matter how they are brought up by and what they'll become, everyone as a child was straight forward and to the point. Personally I think we should get more advice from children than we should 'adults', yes they know better but a child has a fresh straight to the point mind.
I started to think this way as I've just had work experience. I was in a primary school working with reception and nursery and the saying 'stop acting childish' came to mind. These children there (in my opinion) we're better people than those older than them. Thy showed what they felt, they didn't hide anything and they we'e free. They said anything that came to mind and tried their best with everything they did.
This made me think of my younger self, how I used to run around naked (don't judge I was 3) and have no care about it. I was just being me. I made friends and trusted to easily, everything was simple and that made me want to stop 'growing up', at the age of 10 I think thats when the best years of your life have finished. Why does society make us into these insecure people? What is the point of second guessing ourselves?
So I ask you all to at the very least have one day (even maybe every other month) to just let go, I want you to run around as if you have no control over your limbs, ask that person out because you like them and tell them how you feel, do something just 'cause you want to and not care what others thought. GO crazy and relive your childhood days.
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