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Being Different Will Only Result In Tears Essay

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Dear Noelle McCarthy I strongly disagree with your article “being different will only result in tears”. You make a number of incorrect points, comparing the lives of animals to the lives of humans. In most cases being different is a good thing as it makes you unique to the other people, if every one is the same you will eventually get bored of them, so making new friends who have a different personality than you do is a good thing in most groups. Every one is unique in most ways; basically we all do the same things, however it goes down to the way we think, that is the way that makes everyone unique, you cant change the way you think, but you can change the way you behave. You generalize being different, you may be different in a positive or negative way, it’s just the negative way, which she describes as “deadly”, some people choose to be different and succeed in life for example make friends or finding a good job just because your personality is different, celebrities prove that as most of them are classified as weird however millions of people follow them. You speak from your own experience, she cannot do that as she is only explaining the stories of a minority of people out of 7 …show more content…

Personally I disagree with what you have pointed out, you say that making friends is one of the few ways to avoid bullying, however how would you make these friends? Well that would have to be by being different, to me making friends is a good way to have fun not avoid bullies, I am in a social group in which everyone shares a different opinion also we all share different cultural and religious backgrounds which enables us to bond. At a point, where you state that you are being ‘teased and taunted’ and you ‘escaped it by making friends’, I agree that making friends is a great way to encounter these threats, but just being friends with some one just to stop the bullies is sad and

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