The World Essays (4319 words) - Frank Sinatra,

The World The World The world is a messed up place and we are all stuck here until our lives are through, or until we choose to leave. It's strange that I go along with everything everyone tells me, such as that I should ware certain cloths or listen to certain songs. I often wonder why I do the things I do, but then I just realize that's who I am. People are confused about why they are here and they don't understand what life is supposed to be about. They think that they should be a certain way or think a certain way, but they are all wrong. We should all act however we want to and not let the world influence us. Chapter one When I was a child I thought that the world was to big for me to understand, but I was wrong. The world is easy to understand if you're not crazy. All you got to do is realize that no one really knows what he or she is doing or where he or she is going. Every day that I wake up I wish that the world would change to where it was all right to be who you really are. Instead you have got to be what the world wants you to be. Its sad that these days a child can be left out of a certain group because his parents cant afford the outrageously expensive cloths that the other kids ware. This may cause the child to feel less encouraged to try in school or other activities. This is the kind of small thinking that causes a teen to act out in violence. After years of being picked on and labeled as a trouble maker just because of who he or she is and were he/she comes from. Society often blames parents or television for these tragedies because they cant admit that their own selfishness and lack of respect for those less fortunate is the true poison of the world. I once saw a man sitting on a street corner playing a guitar with his guitar case open. People passed him without looking or listening. Every now and then someone would toss some loose change or even a dollar, but they still never herd the music the man was playing. I stood and listened for about ten minutes to what was the greatest live version of ?Free Bird? that I had ever heard. When the man finished I offered him some money not so people would see me doing but because I thought his performance was well worth it. The man just smiled at me and declined it saying, ?no thanks, your applauds are all the payment I was looking for.? That was the moment in my life when I realized the world had it all wrong and society was blind. I was twelve years old. Since that day I've been on a quest to in some way show the world what I was fortunate enough to learn. I've tried in many ways to show my peers that it's ok to do your own thing and not follow others. Often I've just been criticized for my actions and told that I was being ridiculous, which in a few extreme cases was true, but I didn't let that stop me. Over the past six years of my life I've crawled out of what could be called the filth of society and established myself as an ?outstanding young man? in order to get people to notice my examples I'm trying to set. Of course I totally despise myself for the levels I've stooped to in order to get where I am today. Never the less, I believe if you're going to do something right u might as well go all out. So I guess by writing this I'm trying to finalize the actions that have taken place in my life during what are suppose to be the most important years of a teens life. Perhaps this book will help open a few eyes and turn a few heads but more then likely it will just be criticized and manipulated my several people that are just afraid of the honest to god truth of