I.+Self+Reliance+Project

I started to understand life and become who I am when I moved to my third middle school in eighth grade. Before, family issues around sixth and end of seventh grade had made me feel angry inside. Years later my best friend from seventh grade told me that there was a rumor that I would bring a gun to school, I would never do that, it goes against my own beliefs and it’s the most incompetent thing to do. Since the anger was fading my emotions were unbalanced and I had thoughts that lowered my confidence. Hurtful things were said and hurtful things were said back but they came back empty. Then I met a friend who helped me be who I am today. He taught me that what people say are just words not weapons, that they can do no damage so just smile laugh at fools as they are. He basically taught me a complex version of “I’m rubber your glue, whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.” I learned to have a great sense of humor and to use that to my advantage. I was also learning about my surroundings more. How everyone had to have a phone or love this music or even wear this style of clothing. Everyone needed to do the same thing to be cool, be it drugs and alcohol or copying the top celebrity at this moment. I learned a little bit about my own life, like I thought my step dad was a mean man and unfair but in truth he is more of a father than my real dad. In the real world they say no two people are alike but there are a lot of famous people that are alike. I guarantee that at least seventy percent of the people doing this project used Glogster. There is no real individuality in this world because chances are people have done some of little things you can do. You can only be individual in your mind, a false individualism. I have found who my “individual” self through my many different changes of music until I settled and how I feel about life. **// “I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.” //** [|//Michel de Montaigne//] When I found this quote it really hit me because it is the way I live my life. It means to not care what others think of you but what you think of yourself. You will be happy doing what you love and not what others do. You should not follow in the footsteps of failures or even successors because they are not you, the only path you should take is your own.