Should Some Opinions Affect Own Choices

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Should Others Opinions Affect Your Own Choices Has anyone ever told you their opinion about what you or other people are doing? The opinions of others or what they might think keep people from living the lives they want to live. That one girl you like but your scared that other people will not like her like you parents or your friends, peoples opinions do affect you and what you do. So I myself, think that peoples opinions should not affect you and what you do because why would you care what people think as long as you are happy with your choices. Though, it may not always be a bad thing , let’s say your parents won’t let you do something because it will get you hurt or in trouble they speak there opinion about it because they want to help you …show more content…
He was born underdeveloped and it was hard for him to achieve anything at his size , but he never gave up even when people told him to because he believed in himself. He believed God had a plan for him and even when people would tell him that’s silly he would just continue to believe in it because he didn’t care what other people thought about him. If we didn’t care what other people think you would do more things that you want to instead of caring of what people will think and say about you. Simon birch was a successful kid because he believed in what he thought was right , even if others didn’t think the same way.
Romeo and Juliet was also another movie that has good morals about others opinions. In this movie Juliet’s guardian the nurse told her to marry a man named Paris and to marry Romeo at the same time. The nurse did this because of Juliet’s parents expect her to marry Paris but she is in love with Romeo and doesn’t want to marry Paris. Instead of marrying them both she picked Romeo the one she loved not the one her parents loved. She was happy and didn’t care about the others opinions because they didn’t

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