People Are Not "Fake" by Leonidria

People Are Not "Fake" by Leonidria - July 2016 Scholarship Essay

Hello my name is Leonidria Robinson and the most important lesson that I’ve learned from my teacher is that someone is not “fake” simply because they act differently around someone else, it’s just that they have a different relationship with them. For example, the way that someone acts with their mom or dad is not going to be the same way they act with their girlfriend or boyfriend. Or the way they act with their best friend, they are not going to act in the same manner with their teacher or important authoritative figure.

For example,

I have a best friend and I absolutely love her to death. We’ve been besties since elementary school and we’ve grown together. When we first got into high school, she met a group a girls that she got really close with and she started acting differently when they were around. I started calling her fake because when we were together, she didn’t possess any of the qualities she had with her group of friends.

There’s a girl I know who’s so quiet and reserved from her family, sometimes they think she’s mute. But whenever she gets around her friends and boyfriend, she has a different personality. She laughs more, smiles more. You wouldn’t even be able to tell her apart from her quiet self. One day her sister saw her out at the beach with all her friends and couldn’t believe what she was seeing. She was honestly upset because on multiple occasions she’d tried bonding with her sister and she never really responded. The sister never felt more betrayed.

What I learned is that people are not “fake”. They may seem “fake” because they act differently around different people. When he described his reasoning to me, I really had to ponder on that thought and reconsider my definition on the term of “fake”. I really had my mind opened to a new perspective. It was the greatest lesson I’ve learned in my young life.