Marietta (FGCU): Societies Critics

Society- a body of people where everyone is a critic and no one can escape the judgment of others.  When you think about it, no one can escape the evil critics of society.  Everywhere you go you are being watched, analyzed, and judged.  Whether it is based on your clothing, physical appearance, location you live, the car you drive, or the bling you wear, you will be judged.  Society has created a monster making people insecure about all aspects of their life.  Since we were young people have been telling us that judging people on their appearance is cruel and harmful, yet every month when the new People magazine comes out everyone lines up to get it.  The new trends, styles and hot gossip keeps people coming back for more.   It entertains us and allows us to focus on other people’s lives instead of our own.  Media has corrupted society by being the instigator and head critic.  Magazines such as People, present us with the idea that gossip and being judgmental is ok.  We are constantly judging the celebrities and what’s happening in their lives.  Placing titles on people like Paris Hilton as promiscuous, and Carrie Underwood as “The American Girl” becomes routine, almost a hobby.  We then carry these titles over and apply them to people relevant in our life.  We have rockers, scene folk, church goers, activist, government officials, and nobodies.  All of these titles are seen as personality classification, or in one word, judgment.            

Judging someone during a first impression is something most everyone does.  However, by doing this the individual is hurting themselves by closing the door to a potentially awesome relationship.  I’ve always said that everyone has something to teach you, but it’s your responsibility to allow them the opportunity to.  Most life skills are introduced by others in unobvious ways.  For example, I learned the importance of being honest and taking chances due to life situations I experienced with my friend Alvin.  If I went off my first impression of him, we probably wouldn’t be as close as we are now.  I believe that it is important for others to be open-minded about people and place themselves in their shoes before passing judgment.  I would like to urge everyone to ignore societies evil criticism and focus more on the individual inside.  With this being done there is no doubt in my mind that the world will be a better place.

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