Stick Figures In Society

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Do you remember when you were a child, when all you could draw were stick figures with wiggly lines for arms, legs and a head? As we grow older and more mature, our stick figures change based on how we see the world and ourselves. It takes on characteristics such as intricate facial expressions and forms of an actual body shape and sizes. We might even add color to make it come to life even more. But we have allowed society to mold our visions of the stick figures as well as our own images, instead of taking shape on our own.

Society has set restrictions to us and our drawings by forcing us to use black and white instead of color. According to American essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make

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