Journal+4+-+Reflection

// Please respond to the following prompt for Journal 4-Reflection. Please check your response, utilizing STAR, prior to publishing. 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?

I don't dress differently according to who I'm with, unless we're going to someplace fancy, the movies, or some other place. I act and speak according to who I am around based on the appropriateness of the situation. For example, if I'm around my parents, I won't be making jokes that are really out there and whatnot. When I'm with friends, I act like I normally do. I joke around and we mess with each other, just like a lot of guys do. I don't believe that any adjustments in how one acts and speaks is hypocritical or false, because there is a time and a place for everything, and if you're with people who don't like to joke around, then it's not the time or place to be joking around. Making that adjustment doesn't make me feel hypocritical to myself, mostly because it's just how life is. You can't always act the same way forever, because emotions change and environments change. However, if I were to make changes such as doing something I don't want to do, like protesting pigs' rights to not be bacon, then I would feel false and hypocritical because the real me loves bacon, even if I am surrounded by people who don't. Most of the time I don't make false adjustments. The real me is a person who's active and loves to have fun, but I'm serious when it's called for. //