Carlos Meza
CO2520
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Unit 6 assignment 2: Relationship, communication, and society
I reject the idea that one must conform to external influences because there is pressure from all around to do one thing or another. When someone pushes for me to try to change to fit their idea of who I should be, my first instinct is to forcibly reject it and fit my own guides of what I should do. Though there are times when I have to conform to receive the outcome I desire. My choices are my own and I own them and make them mine.
In the situation I am thinking of, I was being influenced to stop seeing my wife because she wasn’t the kind of person others thought I should be with. With that I changed the situation but not in the way one may think. Instead of changing to the extent of leaving her while we were dating I changed it so she would be my future wife. This was done both because I wanted to be with her but also to give the world the flying finger and say no I will not conform because I want this. With this choice, I benefited immensely because of how much I love her and her me, and yet with it I don’t know that I benefited from it at all because of the choices I already choose. I make my own selection of choices instead of going “against” or “with” what people say. So in some instances I do follow the “norms” but others I go against them because I make my own choices and depending on the circumstances will go with or against it. If I had it to be done again I would do it without hesitation because I choose my own choices whether people like it or not.