October 22nd 2011
“Don’t let people label you and don’t label yourself by what people label you as”
Inspired by Teacher Jacob
Bonnterre High School

By: Ash and Danii

We teenagers often allow people to define us. These people often ignore our accomplishments and multiply the negative things ten-fold.

It’s time to stop living in the past and start facing reality. Shall we let the past cloud our perception of the future? Should it not occur to them that we are merely just trying to discover life and ourselves?

The beliefs and values we held of yesterday may not be the same beliefs and values we hold today.

They have had their turn and now it is our time to STAND OUT! We have reached an age where we’re just beginning to define ourselves.

So are you tired of being labelled by names like “problem child” or “outcast”?
Then be your own person! Sometimes you have to say what you have to say, be what you have to be and do what you have to do- all at the right time, right place and right manner. This is where the adage comes into play, “it’s not what you say or do, its how you say or do it”.

We can’t always think of what people think of us because we would never move forward. We cannot command things we can only command ourselves.
Remember people can only drag you down when they are beneath you so STAND TALL and LIVE YOUR LIFE FOR YOU AND ONLY YOU!

I AM ME

I am me,
No one else
And nothing less.
Take me as I am
Or leave me to be.

Sometimes I talk from now to forever
And other times I can be a little shy
But that’s me.

I have a different accent
I have a different skin colour
I have a different appearance
But oh well, that’s me

Love me or hate me
Leave me or betray me
But that will never change the fact that I am now and will forever be
ME!

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