Conformity For E: A Personal Narrative On Mindless Conformity I knew that this moment would tell me the truth… a thousand butterflies erupted in my stomach at the sight of her. I was friends with E for two years before this happened. I remember the day like it was yesterday.
“I have someone I want you to meet,” said my friend, Sydney.
“Okay,” I replied.
We walked across the ______ cafeteria to a girl sitting at a table alone and on her phone.
“Sam, this is E. E, this is Sam,” said Sydney before she walked away to leave to two of us to chat.
“Hello,” we replied in unison.
Even though we didn’t talk much, we exchanged Pinterest usernames before the bell rang. We bonded instantly, having lots of common interest and the same crush at the time. …show more content…
I realised that this relationship was doing more harm than good. I as changing myself and I didn’t even know. I talked to J.A.M. a few days later about the situation. She gave me the courage to do what I should have done a long time ago… tell E how I actually felt. I did it that night, telling her I felt alone and that I didn’t want to end the friendship, but fix it. At first everything went well, but of course it took a turn in the wrong direction about halfway through the conversation. She became angry and stopped responding. The next morning I was waiting for J.A.M. by her locker and I spotted E. I felt as if I was Katniss Everdeen waiting to be chosen for the Hunger Games. I knew that this moment would tell me the truth… a thousand butterflies erupted in my stomach at the sight of her. E arrived at her locker and never once even glanced in my direction. She had made her own decision, it was …show more content…
I felt invisible and abandoned. I had just lost someone who I thought was going to be there and projected my own feelings onto others in the process, doing exactly what I hadn’t like being done to me. I learned a valuable lesson out of this; changing yourself for others is never the right thing to do. If you have a problem, bring it up right away in a nice manor. Ignoring it will just make it worse. And if the person reacts harshly to your confession, don’t dwell on it because they aren’t worth it. There are plenty of new people to meet and make friends with. As C.S. Lewis once said, “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave
“I have someone I want you to meet,” said my friend, Sydney.
“Okay,” I replied.
We walked across the ______ cafeteria to a girl sitting at a table alone and on her phone.
“Sam, this is E. E, this is Sam,” said Sydney before she walked away to leave to two of us to chat.
“Hello,” we replied in unison.
Even though we didn’t talk much, we exchanged Pinterest usernames before the bell rang. We bonded instantly, having lots of common interest and the same crush at the time. …show more content…
I realised that this relationship was doing more harm than good. I as changing myself and I didn’t even know. I talked to J.A.M. a few days later about the situation. She gave me the courage to do what I should have done a long time ago… tell E how I actually felt. I did it that night, telling her I felt alone and that I didn’t want to end the friendship, but fix it. At first everything went well, but of course it took a turn in the wrong direction about halfway through the conversation. She became angry and stopped responding. The next morning I was waiting for J.A.M. by her locker and I spotted E. I felt as if I was Katniss Everdeen waiting to be chosen for the Hunger Games. I knew that this moment would tell me the truth… a thousand butterflies erupted in my stomach at the sight of her. E arrived at her locker and never once even glanced in my direction. She had made her own decision, it was …show more content…
I felt invisible and abandoned. I had just lost someone who I thought was going to be there and projected my own feelings onto others in the process, doing exactly what I hadn’t like being done to me. I learned a valuable lesson out of this; changing yourself for others is never the right thing to do. If you have a problem, bring it up right away in a nice manor. Ignoring it will just make it worse. And if the person reacts harshly to your confession, don’t dwell on it because they aren’t worth it. There are plenty of new people to meet and make friends with. As C.S. Lewis once said, “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave