Journal #30 Finding Your True Self

In the world today, it is very hard to truly be yourself. So many people try to be something that they are not, and conform to try and be someone else. Teenagers feel such a huge pressure to fit in with everyone else, and to try and be popular at school. You can see this everywhere in our nation, including Pleasant Plains High School because, you can see kids everyday who just try to fit in to what is popular and not truly be themselves. Being a teenager, I know the pressure that people feel when it comes to trying to be accepted by your peers and to have people like you, but if you try to be someone else and act like them then you will never find out who you really are. One of the main things during adolescence to do is to make your own personality and identity. Everyone in the world is a unique individual, so that’s how someone should act. I myself have not truly found my true self though. There are many things that I do not know about myself that make up my true self. For example two huge parts of my life coming up are where I would like to go to college at and what I would like to do as my career. This is a huge part about me that I am still not sure about. There are so many colleges out there and it is so hard to pinpoint the one that I like best and also the one that would be best for me. Career is also a huge step because, I will hopefully be doing the same job from when I am around twenty-five to when I retire around sixty-five. That is forty years that I would be doing the same job. That is why finding the right job for me is so important to myself because, I want to be doing something that I truly like. I know I still have time to find out who I truly am, but I just hope sometime soon I can.