Eric-WIA | Houston, TX  • United States , Age 15

Who I am?



Feb 26, 2008 - 21:59 PM PST

Hello World. A friend of mine told me a couple days ago that "...If you aren`t willing to change yourself for a friend,then you shouldn`t be friends with that person." Some people believe in that...me on the other hand I think that is the stupidest shit I have ever heard. If you aren`t willing to be friends with someone the way they are, THEN you shouldn`t be friends with that person. Sure I say this to you now, but I`m too shy and shallow to tell it to my friends. For some reason I feel like I need friends in order to feel good about my self. Have I really become that girl? This saddens me. This is who I am... or is it? Am I the sarcastic, bitchy,arrogant, ass hole of a girl who thinks that the world should revolve around her..or I am I the shy,shallow,fake girl who has low self esteem and just wants to find who she is? You tell me.

-Erica.H
P.S. Thanks for listening

Title: Who I am?
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Added: 02-26-2008
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Jul 07, 2008 - 01:09 AM
what is this on my page and why am I able to edit it when I didn't write it?

Mar 29, 2008 - 16:39 PM
Change is what life is all about, someday you will realize that NOTHING stays the same, everything changes and if you don't have the ability to accept the changes and find your "self" among the changes, then there is really no point in living. Every single person you meet whether it's a homeless person on the street or a new kid at school or a cashier at your favorite store you come in contact with them for a reason, to make you aware of something you weren't already aware of. Everyone is going to ask you to change and only when we have the ability to change will we grow and learn and move on to our next lesson. Now I'm not saying that because the media, friends or relatives tell us we should be skinny with blond hair and fake boobs that we should. Or that its only cool to drink and smoke so we should do that too. What I am saying is that having those people or those things ask us to change is what helps us to determine who we really are. True friends,fake friends, teachers, media, society and complete strangers, all will ask us to change it might be for the better it might be for the worse, but if you weren't asked to you would never know who you are. No matter what your religious views are whether you are a devout Christian or atheist or whatever the purpose of life is to grow and without change growth is impossible. True friends are the ones who ask us to change, who make us question who we are and what we stand for, but are willing to stand beside us if we are unable to change, and they will also be willing to change themselves.


Mar 16, 2008 - 13:59 PM
a completely different take.



Mar 08, 2008 - 05:27 AM
In life there are 2 kinds of friends the true friends and the fake friends. True friends would never want you to change for them, only fake friends would want that. Life's too short for fake friends. I know it's cliché, but you're lucky if you can't count your true friends on one hand. I would rather only have one or two true friends than a million fake ones. Don't worry about who you are, even if you can't say that to your friends, you wrote it here so you're obviously thinking about it and that it itself is good. I remember people telling me that high school was the best time of your life and you should enjoy it, but that's complete crap. Life get's so much better. It's ok to need friends in there, times aren't always easy and things just seem better when you're not alone walking those halls.

Mar 07, 2008 - 20:03 PM
i would say that a friendship is a little give and take... if it is something small that your friend would like you to change then i think it is ok... like i have a friend who thinks that it is perfectly alright to burp and be very "unlady-like"ha.. in public so we asked her to change that because we were getting embarassed, so i think changes that make u better are ok--but not changes that tear down your morals or beliefs or things that make you who you are.. i don't believe in drinking and smoking until the official age limit and some of my friends think that it is perfectly alright to do things like that, but they know i don't agree, so they don't do it around me and so they respect me for that... and i think you do kind of know who you are.. you know yourself well enough to know what you stand for don't let anyone change who you are.. and i as well as many others are still searching for who we are... but i can't promise that you will EVER figure that out... good luck figuring everything out...

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