Gladys’s Blog

“To be great is to be misunderstood”. Many people back then had great ideas bit were misunderstood by many people. “We pass for what we are”. You can try to cover yourself and hide behind this mask but our inner self will always come out. One way or another. You cant hide who you are forever, and you shouldn’t have to. I feel like i made a difference in my friends lives. Im like a safe place for them, someone they can go to with their problems. I’ll listen to them and try my best to help them even if i have problems of my own. I like making sure they’re okay, anyone would want that for their friends.

Fear of judgment stops us from doing things we want to do. It stops us from being who we really are. Children don’t have that fear, they simply don’t care. And why would they? They shouldn’t have to worry about what the public would think of them. They act however they want because they want to. So why don’t we? You can act a certain way and be someone you’re not, or you can be yourself. Either way people will judge, there’s nothing we can do about it. Might as well be ourselves and act the way we do because it really doesn’t matter. I understand that the craving of acceptance is strong and keeps us from being who we really are, but at the end of the day if you don’t like who you are then it’s not worth it. Society shouldn’t have a say in who we “need” to be. Its our lives, its our choice.

My first impression on self-reliance was that he was speaking for the people too scared to speak for themselves. Being yourself is more important than being what other people think you should be. When you have an idea but decide not to speak up, then someone else says it and gets all the credit it can be pretty disappointing. You start thinking to yourself “if only i spoke up”. People are afraid of being judged or wrong in public. Sad part is a lot of people know a lot of things but the fear of judgement stops them from speaking up.