As you may already know, your senior year at Monroe High, you are enlisted to be in the class competition of various categories in which your fellow classmates may or may not see you fit to be. Amongst the categories, there are choices such as Best Hair, Best Dressed, Most Unique, Most Successful, etc.  Within these choices, students individually choose who they think suits best. Yet, is individually judging “the best and worst” of your fellow classmates reasonable if we’re given permission to do so?

Right from the start of when the modern American human brain is capable to comprehend knowledge, the idea of equality between humanity is stressed. Unlike earlier generations, we learn that we should judge off whom individuals really are, not the exterior persona we see through our eyes. Yet as we become older, and our intelligence expands, we awaken to the hypocritical statement we’ve been told our entire lives. The idea of equality begins to be nothing more than an idea of a utopia rather than a realistic way of living. Suddenly individual importance becomes based off social classes and standards, laws, religions, and even the country in which you were born.  The truth that seemed so simple when we were young seems to no longer stand up as a global perspective.

We wonder why there is so much tension of self-worth within our country when we deliberately let the “social norm” dictate our own opinions and thoughts. On top of the endless judgment everyone already has to deal with within our country, I don’t think inflicting it upon our school makes much sense.

Is this where we are now in society? Have we lost all knowledge of the truth, and become this far detached? We are not the money we have in our wallet or the things we own. We are not our religions, races, sex, or the sexual preference we desire. We are not how attractive our exterior appearance may be. We are all humans, and the truth of who we really are lies beneath our skin.