Back to high school and its childish ways.

It never ceases to amaze me how some people will never grow out of their high school ways, even though the environment they are now residing in is full of intellectuals, who find teasing and back chatting a 10 year old's past time. One thing you need to learn when you come to University is that even though you might in some ways become more mature (even though it is not a lot) there will always be a bunch of people who will make it their mission to make your first year as miserable as possible. They may not know you at all, may have held one conversation with you in their whole entire life, or have some preconceived idea of the person you are due to societal stereotypes and back chatting of other people who THINK they know you. It is inevidable that no matter how fun loving, friendly and happy you are there will always be someone who will try and break your stride and dampen your mood or destroy your personality. The most important thing to remeber is to always know who you are and not let other people's cruel words and actions destroy who you are. You will not be able to get along with everybody and you will have habits and even talents and strong points which other people may not like about you, but it doesn't mean that you are a bad person and you should change, it just means that those people who have a problem with you and who you are don't really matter. Those people will never contribute any positive things to your life except make you stronger and make you want to work harder so one day you can show them that the things they hated the most about you are the things that made you strong and who you are and helped you succeed. One of my favourite quotes states " Say whatever you feel, and do what you want because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." I think every person should stick to that quote (even the bullies) and realise that the people who appreciate you for who you are and wouldn't do anything to change you are the people worth your time, so find out who you are, and do it on purpose because that person is the only one that can judge you and decide which things make you or break you.