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Fitting In

Being a teenager means a lot of experiences and pressures, it's the part of our life in which we feel like nothing could stop us. People think that becoming a teenager means having more freedom, more time to spend with your friends, hanging out by yourselves without any adult supervision. There's a lot of problems on becoming a teenager especially trying to fit in. Usually it's the part in our lifetime in which we start acting what we want to be when we grow up. An example is how people start listening to what they call rock music and they start acting like them even going to the point when they dress like them. Another example is how people start training themselves on becoming better at a certain sport. Because of the things that we like we tend to start hanging out with the people who likes the same things that we like. This causes for everyone to have their own group to hang out with. It's a good thing that you get to have a group you get to hang out with that likes the same music or sports that you like, but what if there's a certain person who tries to fit in a group but people try to move away from that person because they don't like the person, because the person is what they call "ugly" or maybe because the person acts different from everybody else.

 People try to make fun of someone who doesn't like the things that they like. Sometimes people makes a certain person feel bad just cause they're not the same as everyone else. This causes for the person to feel bad about their selves. This usually happens during our teenage years but it also means worse than what someone can experience during their elementary years or their childhood years, because teenagers they tend to get more violent and they would try to hurt you physically and emotionally. This causes for a certain individual who's an outcast start blaming themselves, they start changing just for someone to like them, or some they try to take out their anger by cutting themselves. It's a worse feeling for someone to feel like the whole world hates them.

 I guess trying to fit in is such an important part of our teenage years because when you're down or when you're joyous you get to share it with someone or there's always someone to support you in every decision that you make. But people goes into the extreme in which they make a certain group of people hate an individual and of course it will spread around the whole school and by them time you know it the whole school hates that person. It's very cruel and I think people should stop doing this because it makes someone's self confidence and faith very low. We should start accepting everyone around us, accept them for who they are. We shouldn't judge others because of their physical appearance and we don't have the right to judge because it's only God who can judge us.

We should try to make everyone around us welcome and we should try to make them feel that they're accepted. Fitting in is a huge part of our lives and we should always make someone feel special by not making them feel like an outcast or by try accepting them into your group because what goes around comes around. So while we still have time let's start appreciating everyone because we might regret something through the rest of our lives

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