The Pros And Cons Of Being An Outsiders

People who feel like outsiders are more likely to describe themselves as lonely, which allows their stress levels to rise and their immunity to fall. People who are not able to include themselves into a group of “labeled” tend to experience an unwanted force between the two. Someone who is out of class, out of varieties, out of choices: these individuals are known as “outsiders”. Many individuals, especially teens, believe that they are outsiders, as they hope to get accepted into their desired “labels”. Teens like Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye, are able to share their thoughts and analyze the differences of daily life between the world and one’s self-being. Outsiders tend to think that they don’t belong, that they don’t fit

Society tend to avoid becoming outsiders, due to the negative factors of having that status. Being an outsider does not necessarily mean that one does not experience the same amount of benefits as an insider, but it makes it equal with it’s own pros. Outsiders tend to do well at identifying situations: picking up misinterpretation and misunderstandings. This makes the outsider more perceptive and a better reader of the signals that are around them; often making it very useful in real world situations like negotiations and persuading situations. Another advantage for an outsider is understanding. The flexibility of understanding insights opposite to how they are taught, gives the outsider better adaptations of why things are done better than usual. Outsiders are different from those who learn with given instructions: making foreigners often having better usage of the English language than native speakers themselves. much better insight into why things are done the way they are. Outsiders also have more variations of choices, meaning that they can come in and out of their “status” more than what insider’s can apply with. In Chapter 1, Holden Caulfield once said, “Anyway, it was the Saturday of the football game. […] I remember around three o'clock that afternoon I was standing way the hell up on top of Thomsen Hill. […] You could see the whole field from there..” This quote explains how Holden himself