My Friend
Three weeks ago, I found myself back in ACS(Independent). Good? Perhaps, I’ve seen graduates miss the school so much so I guess I could count myself lucky for still being in the school. The first two weeks don’t really count as school so lets skip that. The past week has been… well, there are no words to describe it. Murphy’s law indicates that anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Well, it did and I ended up having a cousin in my orientation group (OG). For the first time in four years, I’m put into a class with new classmates. A very normal occurence for some, but something I’ve not experienced in a long time. This brings me to my next big rant.
Take a look around yourself. How much of it is real? No this is not a hypothetical TOK question. Look at the people around you. Is that who they really are? Or is that just the persona they put up for one reason or another?
In the past three weeks I’ve seen countless numbers of personas and false pretenses. You know that loud uncouth friend of yours? Have you realised (s)he is suddenly very refined and speaks with an english accent? Have you realised one of your friends suddenly became very active? Jumping around, speaking loudly, very obviously trying to draw attention? Now then, the question is why.
Actually, the answer is pretty simple, to make friends. Well, at least the intention is to make friends. As for me, I still don’t understand the need to put on an act in order to make friends. Yes it is cliche, but we should just be ourselves. Right? Right? Right?! At this point, I have made about 80% of the people who read this roll their eyes and close the page.
Then again, I’m a very anti-social person (and many people would be happy to testify). Perhaps this is just the way people make friends, perhaps this is how people are supposed to make friends.
