Consider how our actions might affect the way people view us. It is easy to get caught up in the moment, especially when we are with friends. Our actions don’t necessarily define us, but they do affect how we are seen by others. As a teen myself, I know that when you are with friends, everyone tends to share the same mischievous mindset. Noam Girma wrote an interesting perspective on how our actions don’t necessarily define us, but how we are seen in his essay “Wasted Time”. In his essay, he wrote about how he and his friends were kicked out of a concert because they chose to be influenced by the wrong group of people. As a result of this, he ended up regretting his decision and faced the outcome of his action. In sharing his experience with …show more content…
Even so, this message does not reside with me. Noam’s experience does not validate the fact that when you don’t make the right choices, other people assume opinions of us because of the way we act. What Noam needs to understand is that when you get caught up in the moment, other people are impacted by your decisions. The movie “Mean Girls” is about Cady, a student who moves schools and gets swept up in the world of popular girls, called the “plastics”. At first, Cady is excited to be friends with the plastics and goes along with whatever her friends suggest. As time goes on, Cady realizes that her actions are hurting people and making her feel bad about herself. She realized that her friends influenced a change which she found to be negative. In the end, Cady decided to break away from the plastics and decided to find her true self away from the negativity of the plastics. Cady’s experience display’s the negative impact of being influenced by her friends and seeing the negative perspective of how others see her. This is demonstrated when she says, “I started to enjoy being plastic. The meaner I was, the more people looked up to