The Thing About Fitting in
At every stage in our lives and in every kind of society we find ourselves, there's always the struggle to fit in- to be accepted or to feel like we are like everyone else in a circle . For me, while growing up, the struggle was real. I wanted to fit into the Christian crowd. I wanted to fit in the popular kids crowd, I wanted to fit into the bookworms group. I wanted to fit into the "I don't care-crazy crew" . I wanted to fit into the cute girls clique. I was a mess! So, it was like I had multiple personalities and I couldn't keep up. However, as I got older, I got realize that I wasn't crazy for wanting to have in at different settings, where I got it wrong was in my trying to belong to every circle. Hence, my major issue was with identity crisis. I didn't know who I was or the kind of person I wanted to be. I got swayed easily. And the things I had interests in were putting pressure on me to a point of extremism. For example, my love for
