Being An Outsider Essay

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An outsider is a person who does not belong in a certain party or a group. An outsider is left out from parties, groups, and even sometimes they are not allowed near a place or person. Outsiders are not cool and people do not like them or are not drawn to them. Synonyms such as the odd one out, stranger, and refugee say it all. All of these words are example of what outsiders feel like or what outsiders are.
Once I was an outsider. When I was younger in second and third grade I was not one of the cool kids or one of the kids you’d want to play with on a usual basis. I was shy and I would only talk to the people I was great friends with which was only a couple people. I tried to play with some of the other kids who were a better at sports. I …show more content…

He gets special attention inside of the group and unlike the outsider, people want to be around the insider. The insider is desirable to people because of his status and connections. Currently I am an insider in my group of friends. I could make some of the other kids involved, but sometimes the other kids want to be in our group. They do not show it sometimes though. I could try to invite the people into our group and maybe instead of an outsider my friends and I could make them part of the group so they can feel the feeling of being an insider. I could have made them feel welcome on the first day of school and get off to a good start, but it is too late for that and now I will have to start from the bottom and get him into the …show more content…

Now I understand that no one deserves the feeling that you get when you are an outsider. It is my mission to try to make everyone an insider and not an outsider so nobody has to feel the pain that people like Martin Luther King Junior, George Washington, and Socrates felt. Even though these people were outsiders they overcame. These people were fighters for new ideas. From the Civil Rights Movement to the creation of a new country, these people were revolutionary. From segregation to image these people changed the views of thousands and even millions in some

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