Hello, my name is Joshua Jackson and I think being different is a good thing because I believe people who are different are unique. In society today lots of people try to be like other people and those who set themselves aside from other people usually stand out from others who try to fit in. In the beginning of my school year I tried to fit in and be like others and realized later on to just be my true self.
Later on this school year I found people who have accepted me as I am. Being different also helps develop friendships and common interests. It is also good to meet different people with different interests because you can learn new things about one another. I have learned to be yourself because you will be happier despite what others may think of you or want for you. God gives us a gift of the freewill to choose so choose what others want for your life.
At my middle school I was judged for being myself and at my highschool I was judged myself so I learned that people are going to judge you regardless. Most of the time when we try to be like other people we become someone we aren’t because of how other people may think about us. A great example of trying to be someone else for other people is a Disney Channel movie called Genius made in 1999. The movie is about a thirteen year old boy, named Charlie Boyle. He is a genius and is fascinated with physics and loves hockey.
He was so gifted he goes into a college in Wisconsin at the age of thirteen and finds that even there he is too much of a nerd to make friends so he decides to change into a bad boy in an attempt to gain friends. In this movie I learned that some people will accept you as a friend and some people won’t accept you as a friend. I have a similar but different experience to this story and I made lots of cool friends who accepted me for who I was. Well, whoever reads this never stop being who you are for anybody and be your true self.