2.1 Commencement Speech

     I disagree with the author because getting a population to change and develop their own personalities is quite close to impossible and that is what she wants everybody to do: "be themselves" and see the world how you wish to, not how your parent or your peers want it to be.

      This is, unless you are a child, nearly impossible because children are not yet impacted by reality and act upon their own until they are influenced otherwise, and so that makes the entire essay invalid. In a perfect world, everyone would be unique and this author would be satisfied to know that her idea actually works. But in reality there will never be so many different personalities because, stereotypically, every male is sexist to a degree that they want their wife to be beautiful and somewhat smart, while every woman is just as sexist and wants a good-looking, strong, considerate, and loving man. So the difference in what a man looks for in a woman and what a woman looks for in a man is very odd because this usually goes into the man’s favor. For example, there are more good looking females with ugly guys rather than ugly girls with good looking guys. When this idea was brought up in the class discussion it was nearly spoken badly upon by every female in the room just because they did not want to realize that, that is what actually goes on and they did not want to be thought of as “played” because it was against a human’s morals. But that is the problem with society right now, because women have been held back and now every male and female is equal, women always want to be in control and what they still do not get is that men will lie and they will cheat in order to get that sexual satisfaction with the most beautiful women they can get.

      The author also says that “every story has already been told”, and this is why there are no longer any people or really anything in general that sticks out to the world anymore. Every story has been told and every topic of discussion has been brought up. The only difference is how people interpret them and how they wish to make that story theirs, which is frequently done because not one person wants to be boring and not have something interesting to say, and half the problem with that is they do not know how to make it different and the other half is they can not interpret it so other people can understand what they are saying.

       Being able to explain what you want to say is the key to making yourself different. Because not everybody has the same brain, or the same fingerprint, we all obviously have a difference to ourselves other than our looks, but getting your thoughts across is the hardest goal to achieve.

      We all wish to be different and to be accepted in the same fashion, but getting both of these things are hard to attain and that is why people give to their ordinary, boring life.