People say and do things that most people don't like, that prove we are all different. Yet some people say when asked if they are normal they say 'Yes.' Then asked their definition of normal and they say "themselves". I asked one such person those two questions then asked him if the guy sitting near him was normal and he responded 'Yes.' But, that struck a cord for me. I stated that he wasn't him. How could he be normal, he wasn't you? He had no good response for that. I asked other people and they answered the same way. But, you tell me what is normal and how do you come to this ans

Okay, everything I have said in this has come from my heart and I hope you heard it. I've learned something from my generation; we don't hear what we don't want to. This little essay wasn't meant to offend any of you. I'm truly sorry if I did offend you, and I wish I hadn't but I spoke the truth I believe in and nothing can change that. In conclusion, finally, don't be apart of the generation-X, be your self, it's easier on the wallet. I hope that you did hear this and will think over some of the many points in this. Thank you.

I look around and see in all your faces, hair, clothes; one thing truly matters to you most, and that is you. You change over the years to who you are, but do you really. Don't some of you change because your friends are and you don't want to be left out? I was that way. I wanted new things that my friends got. I wanted that, and that. Until one day I saw that we were nothing but brand names and things that were so miniscule that we didn't see that the grown-ups were right in labeling us generation-X. We are the generation of brand names and advertisements. These clothes, with brand names spread all over them were what was normal so everyone had to have it. If you don't have Tommy or any thing else like that then your not cool, not normal. 'Heaven forbid, not being normal I must have those or that. Lets not leave out that, I'll be labeled a freak. Please, please I need it you don't know what your doing to me, if I don't have it I'll be made fun of.' those are just some examples of what we have become. I don't dress like most of you all, I plainly don't give a care about how I look, I'm not here to dress for an impression on you, to be blunt I don't give a rats butt what you think about me. I'm me not you, not something that someone wants to make of me. I do what I want, if it has bad consequence then so be it, I'll take my lashes and move on. That's me. We all look out into the roaming crowds of teens and see what they wear and do and if you think they're cool you'll start to do things like them. We are the puppets they, the companies that own Tommy and all those, are the puppeteers. They pull our strings and we bring out our wallets. I'm not going to die with that on my mind. In one of my favorite plays McBeth a line stuck with me the meaning is, "When you die, you die free." If you're thinking right now what that has to do with my paper about being normal or a freak. Well, in plain and simple words everything. When I was younger I was told that everything would be decided for me, but a little later in life you would be free to make your own decisions. I believed that. But now we generation-X aren't free to make decisions because we have our friends and the clothes company tells us what we want to be normal. I was told last year by someone what I need to be normal, and I'm never going to let any one tell me that again. I'm free to make my own decisions and I don't care if it'll end me up in the gas chamber, I will follow my heart to death if I have to and down with

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