Do you Know Who You Are?

Chameleon...do you not think that we as people can relate to other animals like chameleons, perhaps? We, as people of the world are, in a sense, a lot like chameleons that always blend in their surroundings in order to survive. Like a chameleon, we always do our best to blend in our surroundings, the environment, or our society, that we state in for survival and fulfillment reasons.

Here are some questions...

When was the last time you met a person that is..."real" or "legit" you'd say, perhaps? When was the last time you met a person that knows who they really are? I'm pretty sure that many agrees and disagrees that it's hard to find a "real" or "legit" type of a person. Or, the person that know who he/she is... Well of course, except for your best friend. But even your best friend can be deceiving, due to the fact that they have the power to deceive you.

Each and every individual wants to fit in certain group(s) that they desire to be apart of. Perhaps, let's use High School life as an example. In High School, teenagers reaches the part of their life where social life and acceptance become, in a sense, more important. This is where things become very interesting(and sad but true) and if you are still currently in High School or have been in High School, or even remember your High School years. You'd likely understand what I'm talking about.

As you may already know, many teenagers goes far for social acceptance. There are those "bad cool people, good cool people, bad losers, good losers, the weirds, the freaks, etc..." I could go on and on but you get the idea...high school.:)

Let's say the teenagers that wants to fit in the "bad cool people" group because they think it's "bad ass" and would make them "popular." Those teens usually do things that they don't normally do or do things that are demoralizing. Like for example, a student(a guy) may pull a fire alarm because he was dared to do so by his new friends that are "cool" and "popular." Or, dared to pull down some "nerdy and a total loser" student's pants and humiliating that person in from of the entire class, or perhaps in front of the entire students in the cafeteria. These do happen...maybe not in your school but maybe other schools. Let's go to High School girl's "part..."

Many girls are more into the social acceptance thing comparing to guys. Many girls go far beyond what is necessary. I'm pretty sure you've met those types of girls during your High School years or even currently. Some girls goes as far as preferring the "cool pretty girls" friends than their real caring friends. Or prefer being with the "popular" girls that gets it "in" and/or the "popular" girls that every girls would want to be like. Also, girls do things that they don't normally do so that they'd be accepted by the "popular" and "hot" guys that are total douches I'd say. I'd be assuming the you already got the idea of what they might be...

I could go on and on, on the things that we do as individuals to survive in our surroundings, environment, or our society. It may be at school, work; with people like family, friends and neighbors, etc... We try to blend in for survival and fulfillment reasons just like a chameleon.

Be real,choose carefully and choose right:)

Ask this to yourself one day, "Who am I?"

It's the simplest question you could ask yourself but the hardest to answer. What do you think?

p.s.

   Chameleons never successfully blend completely and so do humans. Those are our failures... hahaha!


- Norman M. -