What Does It Mean To Be An Outsider?

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The feeling of being an outsider Have you ever felt like you are an outcast in your school,work,friend group or even family? Well, you are not alone with that feeling. People tend to want to belong and get the sense of comfort that comes with that. From these texts it really proves that everyone has universal experiences of being an outcast. If everyone feels like an outcast, then no one truly is, you're just not in the right group yet. Being different or not the same can bring us together as humans and if we were all the same it would be boring. Although some people might say only weird or not normal people are considered outsiders, the experience of being an outsider is a feeling everyone has felt and as humans is a universal feeling because …show more content…

Someone who has yet to feel like that will think how abnormal humans are, until then do become one and understand that it does happen to everyone and is not always a bad thing. The next text is from “isn't everyone a bit weird?” and right from the title of the text you can agree, everyone from one point or another has been considered weird. When you think of Benjamin Franklin you think of this smart and brilliant guy who was the president but also some of the stuff he did was odd, but in his lifetime people considered it to be outstanding. What could have made Benjamin who he is now and all his accomplishments might have been his oddness. People like to think negatively about something they can't do or understand. “Being a little bit weird may be one of the things that actually connects us, and makes us uniquely human.”(isn't everyone a bit weird, 8) If everyone was the same and everyone understood everyone then yes the world could be more perfect, but why would you want that. Having different emotions and personalities is what brings us all together as humans. Does make us different, it makes us unique and unforgettable. And we can all come together because no one knows everyone, so that connects us even

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