Personal Narrative: My Life In Fear
I used to live my life in fear. With every step I took, I felt like I was disappointing someone, somewhere, whether it be my family or some stranger I saw walking down the halls. My existence was one big failure, and I never really understood why I expected so much of myself.
Society has a way of making one feel little. Advertising nowadays is spent entirely making the consumer feel incomplete without this new gadget, or without this brand of makeup. I feel like that mindset has carried over into our culture; that someone is not complete if they do not meet the standards of society. My life was spent trying to meet these norms by wearing the right clothes or watching the right television shows. I was enveloped in the fear that I was never good
Society has a way of making one feel little. Advertising nowadays is spent entirely making the consumer feel incomplete without this new gadget, or without this brand of makeup. I feel like that mindset has carried over into our culture; that someone is not complete if they do not meet the standards of society. My life was spent trying to meet these norms by wearing the right clothes or watching the right television shows. I was enveloped in the fear that I was never good