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Think Piece 2

 Rebecca Jennings, 26 from Brooklyn, New York. Decided to try all the best things. Her main question was would these things improve her life? Coming to a small surprise her answer was yes, these things actually did improve her life. Although there's more to her story, Rebecca felt the pressure of being someone she was not during this experiment. She felt it was hard to keep up with the expectations of being perfect. At the end of her article, she mentions how she “is relieved that I can finally stop faking it.”

Not comparing this article to my personal life, there are some similarities. I feel I find myself caring about what's on-trend and wanting to keep up with those things. I feel I definitely go through random splurges of spending a lot of money on unnecessary things. Those are also times where I go with only spending money on things I actually need.

I think a lot of the time, we just want to feel accepted by society, or blending in with what's considered “normal” makes us feel pretty in a safe way. I think redirecting our focus from things we buy making us “happy” to our outlooks on life being what makes us happy instead. Living life the way our heart’s desire is what will genuinely make us all happy in our own way. Not acting like the same so we can fit in. Society is like a fake popular girl that everyone wants to be like, but in reality, there is no popular girl so really why not express yourself and embrace who you are. We need to stop clinging to the norms and be who we really are.

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  1. Colleen ThorndikeFebruary 5, 2021 at 9:12 AM

    "Society is like a fake popular girl that everyone wants to be like" this is so true and good insight! We do like to fit in and part of the in-crowd, whatever that is... this also is mimicked in smaller friend groups too, so it's not necessarily bad, but people tend to influence each other and we tend to mimic people we like; I think that's an important distinction, are we being influenced by people we know and like OR are we being influenced by people we want to be like...

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