Cemented Judgements
FleetusMcGee posted in Snapshots
Since third grade my classes have consisted, essentially, of the same thirty individuals. Throughout the past seven years I have seen many facets of the classmates who continue to surround me in high school, but their varied personas fail to adjust my initial perceptions. To me, their elementary antics have merely matured to high school pranks and their childish snickers have become teenage teasing.
Hypocritically, however, I expect my classmates to adjust their idea of who I am. I request they cast aside the image of a lanky girl with straight blonde hair, clad in the pink sweater I wore the first day of school. I insist that they, instead, recognize my physical and ideological changes—the fact that I have become fervent in
my political beliefs and would no longer dawn a sparkly, pink cardigan.
Still, I question the insistence that I should erase the first impressions that have been cemented in mymind through the years, the judgments which, I believe have become reinforced through actions. The first conversations and visions of these individuals will continue to imbue my vision.
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