We as teenagers are often defined as shallow, ignorant, and sometimes immature children. Most of this comes from our failure to take risks and possess an open mind. .
We are all one-student body, yet we are so separated in many aspects. Much of the segregation exists because we are unable to look past appearances. What gives designer clothes, thick-lensed glasses, or different hairstyles the authority to determine if we are people who are worth knowing? Would you feel hurt if people rejected you because you had a few pimples on your face? Would it be fair? These days, there is too much emphasis on looks. If everyone would take a brief moment to see the kindness or .
loving personality in a person instead of his or her body, then the world would unmistakably be a better place. .
There are many truly great and natural differences among people. Nerds are not football players. Their talents and skills are not the same. However, these are formed to benefit both individuals as well as the community. Life requires diversity and many types of people to carry on as life as a whole. Drawn by our natural tendencies to fall into peer pressure, in our feelings of unwantedness, we constantly seek to form cliques. Within these groups, we should discourage any exclusion based on the wrong reasons such as appearances, which many people cannot change.
We are in a state of many changes, a chance to try new things, and to discover who we really are. Ones struggle to be their own person inside as well as out is an .
Highly respectable task that calls for courage. Do not make fun of those who walk down the hall with mismatched socks pulled up to their knees, or those who wear clothes from Wal-Mart. They are only expressing themselves. The recognition of our rights, individual and collective, includes our most basic requirement: respect for our peers. Next time, think about what is in a hairstyle, or what is in make-up.