Marissa Micciulli (Edison): Observation

Have you ever sat in a room and just watched? If you haven’t it’s something I recommend that everyone must to, because in doing so you can familiarize yourself with all different personalities. While everyone else is minding themselves or the friends they have around them, you can begin to see how everyone is acting. Suddenly you can pick out stereotypes and different categories of people and human nature.A majority of people find it completely offensive to be labeled inside of a stereotype, but unfortunately by sitting and watching you can observe these stereotypes without a doubt. When people are unaware of themselves they are more likely to act the way they want to; they begin to act out how they feel on the inside. I’ve always found it completely interesting how people act and react to different settings.No matter where I am there tends to always be three or four typical stereotypes in the room. There’s the pair of girls who think they’re snobby, an obnoxious chatterbox who calls all attention to themselves, the minority who steals, and the rich kid. We’re all familiar with these categories, but watching them almost always makes them true. Now I’m not saying that I like to pick apart people and place them inside walls and criticize them for what they are, but rather I’m just calling out how they act. My true intention of silently observing people in their surroundings is to show myself that stereotypes are a reality. I believe that if you don’t want to become one then you shouldn’t act on what you’re given, but instead try to become the opposite. Snobby girls should invite someone different to join their “group,” chatterboxes should let someone else get in a word, minorities should help give better examples and show you’re not all bad, and rich kids shouldn’t expect everything to fall in place for them.In the end I ask that everyone take the time to watch how others act and how you yourself act. I think that you’ll learn a thing or two and eventually learn how to become an accepting person.

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