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Remember when you were brought into this world? You were given a path you create and follow alone.Your path could lead you to being the best person out there because of what you have gone through. I personally went through a lot of good times but had my fair share of bad. This made me who i am as an individual. People and society don’t make you, they don’t decide who you are or what you become, YOU create yourself.
Society is cruel in many ways than one, when it comes to who we become. Society creates these images that we see. We see it and we know we can’t be that! That we can never, ever achieve this goal society has planted on us. In the most Dangerous Game, Rainsford goes against General Zaroff's society and way of life. He knows it’s not right to kill people. He knows he won’t become a person like general Zaroff. He went against what society's goal was for him. Why
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You listen to what people tell you. They tell you “ you’re fat, you’re ugly, don’t you even care!?” and we pay attention. We let what they say affect us and our every move in life and we stop eating or we take things as far as death. We can no longer make ourselves happy again because of the fear we have of what people are going to say. WE even judge other people just to make ourselves feel better and so they can know the pain because everyone loves him or her. We think “ what gives them the right to be happy while i am here in so much pain with people yelling at me and destroying my world just for the fun of it!” We are the real monsters in this place we call home. We can’t see beauty even if it hit us in the face, there are so many people that there looks aren’t the best but can’t we see through the flaws and see the bigger person inside. Every person was given the same gift, the best gift life. Why do we as humans listen to what people tell us, why can't we see beyond everything we judge in the people we meet in this cold heartless

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