Lessons Learned
When I started my first year as a freshman in high school, I thought I had life figured out. Turns out, nothing has ended up the way I expected it to. Never did I think I would go through the struggles that I have mentally, physically, and emotionally. Friends have changed, relationships have changed, but most of all I have changed. I have changed how I act, how I react to situations, and my confidence level has boosted. To this day, I am still trying to figure who I am . I thought I was going to fit in with the norm, never did I think that I would end up far from it.
Incoming freshmen are looked at like the bottom of the social pyramid, in all aspects of high school. As a freshmen girl they thought that I was going to be a …show more content…
Better at sports, better at getting an education, and overall more successful. I will never agree with that. In class we read about gender roles. We also read about the stereotypes of gender in our society. But as a society we should know that the gender roles of men and women one hundred years ago are not the same today.
As the country has evolved so have the gender roles in society. In high school I feel I had to overcome those so called “roles” of teenage girls. I have never been a weak girl, in any aspect of life. I have always been a very determined, and strong willed girl. In society that is not what a girl should always be like. I never wanted my opinion not validated because I am not a guy. I want to be heard because I am intelligent. My intelligence is the main reason why I have been so successful in every aspect of life so far.
I had to defy the odds that were built against me naturally. But not only in my school life, in my personal life as well. In “The Mirror”, the girl wanted to defy the odds of being a failure, naturally in her family that is what the women became. The girl wanted to be different. I am the same way. I want to be a good role model. I want to take the worst of situations and find the positive in them. I want to ignore the negative comments around me to try to live happier. I think that is what we all strive for in life: to be happy, and to be surrounded with …show more content…
This brought a lot o f negativity to my life. I had girls around me that were in a lot of drama. They treated others poorly and I did not want that in my life. In “The Cave Allegory”, Plato stated, “What would be the manner of the release and healing from these bonds and this folly if in the course of nature something of this sort happen to them.”(Plato 1) This made me look at my situation in a new perspective. What if I was on the receiving ends of my friends’ harsh words, and none of their friends did anything to stop it? I would be furious. That is when I decided I needed to change. I never realized the internal battles others were facing when my friends were saying these harsh comments to them. I never saw what they had going on in their lives. I did not know why they were the way they were, but they deserved someone to stand up for
When I started my first year as a freshman in high school, I thought I had life figured out. Turns out, nothing has ended up the way I expected it to. Never did I think I would go through the struggles that I have mentally, physically, and emotionally. Friends have changed, relationships have changed, but most of all I have changed. I have changed how I act, how I react to situations, and my confidence level has boosted. To this day, I am still trying to figure who I am . I thought I was going to fit in with the norm, never did I think that I would end up far from it.
Incoming freshmen are looked at like the bottom of the social pyramid, in all aspects of high school. As a freshmen girl they thought that I was going to be a …show more content…
Better at sports, better at getting an education, and overall more successful. I will never agree with that. In class we read about gender roles. We also read about the stereotypes of gender in our society. But as a society we should know that the gender roles of men and women one hundred years ago are not the same today.
As the country has evolved so have the gender roles in society. In high school I feel I had to overcome those so called “roles” of teenage girls. I have never been a weak girl, in any aspect of life. I have always been a very determined, and strong willed girl. In society that is not what a girl should always be like. I never wanted my opinion not validated because I am not a guy. I want to be heard because I am intelligent. My intelligence is the main reason why I have been so successful in every aspect of life so far.
I had to defy the odds that were built against me naturally. But not only in my school life, in my personal life as well. In “The Mirror”, the girl wanted to defy the odds of being a failure, naturally in her family that is what the women became. The girl wanted to be different. I am the same way. I want to be a good role model. I want to take the worst of situations and find the positive in them. I want to ignore the negative comments around me to try to live happier. I think that is what we all strive for in life: to be happy, and to be surrounded with …show more content…
This brought a lot o f negativity to my life. I had girls around me that were in a lot of drama. They treated others poorly and I did not want that in my life. In “The Cave Allegory”, Plato stated, “What would be the manner of the release and healing from these bonds and this folly if in the course of nature something of this sort happen to them.”(Plato 1) This made me look at my situation in a new perspective. What if I was on the receiving ends of my friends’ harsh words, and none of their friends did anything to stop it? I would be furious. That is when I decided I needed to change. I never realized the internal battles others were facing when my friends were saying these harsh comments to them. I never saw what they had going on in their lives. I did not know why they were the way they were, but they deserved someone to stand up for