Journal+4+-+Reflection

//How do you act, speak, or dress differently according to which group you are with or whom you are around? Why do you make these adjustments? Do you think it is hypocritical or false to make such changes? Why or why not? Which is the real you?
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There are four different kinds of groups that I act, speak and dress differently to. These are my friends, at home, around grown-ups and in the general public, although the last two are somewhat intertwined. When I am with my friends I dress pretty normally, T-shirt and jeans, and I am really loud and talkative (though even this is changing a bit). Although there are best friends and just plain old friends. I'm loud and talkative in front of my best friends. Around my other friends I just talking about "surface things." At home I wear the same kind of attire as around my friends and I am a lot lazier than I would at any other place. I usually never talk at home unless I'm spoken to or I have a purpose to talk about, not just talking for the sake of it. When I am around adults I dress a bit nicer, maybe a dress shirt and pants, and I try not to talk to anyone. However when I am spoken to I politely respond with one word answers to try and get away from talking to them. In the general public I just wear jeans and a T-shirt and do what I had set out to do in the first place. I try not to interfere with anyone, always saying sorry or excuse me when I cut in front of someone abruptly.

I think I make these adjustments to please the people that I am around. I try and dress as comfortably as possible, but still make the cut for what the intention is. My friends expect me to talk to them because they know me and want me to talk, so I do. At home I help out around the house but talking isn't required for this, so I don't. And around strangers I'm really shy, so I don't talk.

I don't think it's hypocritical or false to make these changes because in a way it is subconscious in my mind to do so. It shows that we have different aspects of our personality that flourish at different times.

I think all of them are the real me since as mentioned earlier, we have a wide spectrum of personality and it shows during different situations that we are placed in.

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