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I think my group came up with an interesting question today: Do you lose the freedom to be who you want to be as you are forced into the big chill of the real world? My answer to this question is two-sided. As much as I would like to say no, you do not lose that freedom, I don't think my complete answer can be no in the world we live in today. I think you do lose some freedom to be who you want to be as you grow older. You grow up, choose the path that you want to take, get a job, and then are forced to pay bills, and support a family if you choose to have one. You are drowning in responsibility. If you want to have an acceptable, "successful" life, you have to live by "respectable" standards. Which means being on the straight and narrow. Some things that you could choose to partake in could result in you being labeled a "loser" by society's standards. I think that maybe deep-down you can always believe what you want to believe. And inside you can always be who you want to be. But many times who you really are isn't what you show the rest of the world. And that is because of all the responsibilities that are put on you. You have to have your priorities straight (and they have to be straight according to what society defines as straight) in order to be considered a respectable member of society. And I think by doing that some of us do lose some of the freedom that we have to be who we want to be. And what we thought we once were isn't exactly who we are anymore.

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• Re: the "big chill" laurlel hyvonen 13:41:38 5/13/98 (0)
• Re: the "big chill" teree bradley 19:24:50 5/12/98 (1)
  • Re: the "big chill" Jason Peterson 17:49:41 5/13/98 (0)

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: I think my group came up with an interesting question today: Do you lose the freedom to be who you want to be as you are forced into the big chill of the real world? My answer to this question is two-sided. As much as I would like to say no, you do not lose that freedom, I don't think my complete answer can be no in the world we live in today. I think you do lose some freedom to be who you want to be as you grow older. You grow up, choose the path that you want to take, get a job, and then are forced to pay bills, and support a family if you choose to have one. You are drowning in responsibility. If you want to have an acceptable, "successful" life, you have to live by "respectable" standards. Which means being on the straight and narrow. Some things that you could choose to partake in could result in you being labeled a "loser" by society's standards. I think that maybe deep-down you can always believe what you want to believe. And inside you can always be who you want to be. But many times who you really are isn't what you show the rest of the world. And that is because of all the responsibilities that are put on you. You have to have your priorities straight (and they have to be straight according to what society defines as straight) in order to be considered a respectable member of society. And I think by doing that some of us do lose some of the freedom that we have to be who we want to be. And what we thought we once were isn't exactly who we are anymore.

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