Im Different And I Don't Care

Authors Note:

This is a piece I wrote about the book Peace, Love & Baby Ducks by Lauren Myracle, I talked about the importance of being true to yourself and knowing from the inside out who you are.

Your sitting on a bench in your normal everyday clothes, you’re not wearing high end designer clothes, but your also not wearing old, ripped, or dirty clothing but yet everyone else around you stares at you and judges you for who you are on the outside not even getting to know you first. This is how Anna feels as she tries to get out of the thought of everyone else that If you don't have the hottest boyfriend, the best clothes, or the best body you are considered a weirdo. The book Peace, Love & Baby Ducks by  Lauren Myracle may be very girly but it shows the way you can be true to yourself and still be loved by others.

Wearing a dahiki to school is the definition of social suicide for all Holy Roller students, but this defines Carly, she is different, she doesn’t care what people think about her. She doesn’t want to be like all the other girls who need to have the best hair, perfect nails, designer jeans and shirts, she just wants to be herself. This is important in the world as life goes on because how do you expect to find a true friend who knows all the truth about you if you’re not even being truthful with yourself.

When Carly goes off to help the poor people to get away from the perfect image all Holy Roller kids have, her younger sister Anna starts to grow up. Anna starts to care more and more about how she looks, who her boyfriend is or how many friends she has on Facebook, she is becoming like all the other Holy Roller students and this is exactly a 360 degree change from the person that Carly doesn’t want to be. Carly really does not want to be like the rest of them that all they see in people is how popular they are, or what their status is.

Learning to express who you really are is a major point in Laurn Myracle book Peace, Love &   Baby Ducks. If someone told you that you could be a rock-star and that all you had to do is change everything that you are and everything that you believe in, would you do it? If you did change would you feel comfortable knowing that the person that the world sees and loves is really a fake. Maybe not quite to this extreme of changing who you are but when you act different around people to get there acceptance your really just cheating yourself from the potential of having a true relationships with people.Do