Be Yourself

     All across my differing media platforms I see people trying to find the new “yanny vs laurel.” It is more annoying than interesting. One thing in media and just in life in general that bugs me is that people try to copy other people and they end up just being boring. They aren’t original or anything. They try to be the same as a celebrity or people with influence and they end up losing themselves. They think that copying that new thing will bring them attention, power and fame. But really that thing that made that celebrity famous or that person influential is because that was a new thing at the time. No one had ever done that. There are many things on the internet that influence what we do or say, and that is fine. But when it gets to the point where you aren’t even you anymore when you are trying to copy someone else, whether it be a celebrity or just a person that you at school, you lose yourself, and you become really boring. Most people like new things, they like to be pleasantly surprised, however, the media forces us into this very strict guidelines. They show us the pictures of how things are suppose to look, how people are suppose to act, and anything that doesn’t meet those standards is not to be looked at. It is not to be praised. This has a detrimental effect on people. The media sends messages like you have to be pretty to succeed, you have to be fit, you have to be funny, you have to be this and you have to be that to do anything in this world and you have to do and achieve these in this way. This makes it really hard for any originality to come through. It makes it hard for new ideas and change to occur. Once you try and be someone else, you lose your own identity. Ed Sheeran in a speech said this, "be yourself because there's no one in the world that can be a better you than you and if you try to be the cool kid from class you'll end up being very boring." What makes you, you is what people love about you. It is what makes you remarkable. Pushing back against the need to conform to these strict pathways put on you by the media is what is going to create a more interesting and overall less stressful life. Because you don’t have to worry if people like you. If people don’t like who the real you is then they don’t belong in your life.