THE DEFINITION OF AN INDIVIDUAL

Let’s start off very frankly; one teenager to another… Society nowadays hurls judgments at us as casually as one would fling pebbles across the sea. Yet what they fail to take into account is how far a comment may sink into one’s mind; quite similar to how one never bothers how far a rock sinks into the vast depths the sea.

Consider the simplest of ideas, “humans are far, far from perfection”. Messing up is part of our nature right? Isn’t that what we’re always told? Despite that, people chose to spell each other out based on their shortcomings rather than their virtues. You may be the cheeriest, most cooperative person in existence but people would strive to find any negative trait just to define you on its basis. That’s the morbid truth of contemporary life. There really isn’t much one can do about this situation except for realizing that those factors are NOT who you are as a person. YOU are not that forgotten homework; YOU are not an argument you got into; YOU are not someone without potential. All these are just wisps, bits of life that are there to test you. On the contrary who YOU really are is the smile you give to a stranger, the help you offer, the acceptance you make others feel and most importantly the love you bring to the world. What makes you ‘you’ is what you give to the world and definitely not all the pebbles it flings on you.

One of my personal favorite personalities regarding this is none other than Iron Man (-Robert Downey Jr.) Believe it or not, the multimillionaire, who contributes to many charities now, had a pretty rough start in life and was at first rejected by the world. After his father started giving him drugs at the mere age of 6, Downey found himself webbed into heavy addiction. Over the course of the next 20 years or so, he attended rehab and was sent to jail many, many times over. Countless articles came out on how he had no morals whatsoever; the world simply did not care that he himself did not chose his way of life. But look at him now. Robert is who he is today because he chose to not succumb to reality. He himself wrote the definition of “Robert Downey Jr.”

  Looking back on it all, just remember that who you are as a person cannot be elucidated by anyone except for yourself. A rather peculiar thought: think of yourself as a Webster and define yourself through your own eyes.