Everyone Is Like Me Research Paper

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I'd like to think that everyone is like me... but they are not.

Everyone is apathetic or sympathetic towards others unless they are close to someone. Then do they show empathy in some circumstances. And when it comes to others, people see them as a threat or different, possibly both because people tend to get rash when they feel threatened by something different.

They don't care about those people because they don't matter or mean something to them. You would think that since they have their own demons to battle that they would treat others empathetically or at least to be kind to one another, but they don't because they simply. do. not. care.

How hypocritical we are.

It's hard for me to understand that because I naturally look for the good in others but I have to remind myself that they don't feel or think like me. Maybe that's why I got deceived; because I always looked for the good in others.

Ever since I found out that everyone was fake, I can now see people's insecurities and strengths. I know others with just one glance and how to rip them apart with just my mere words.

It's a good thing though, that I am caring and wish to not harm others, because it's not right. Humans are emotionally fragile and weak and in no way is it my
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