Digital Voices

Britnie is a junior at Charlotte High school. She is a believer in being your self. Here is Britnie’s “This I Believe” essay.

This I Believe

I believe in being yourself, it is the most important belief a person can have. Being yourself is essential to being happy. To be yourself is to be unique. To be unique is to be an individual. To be an individual is to be you.

Would life be easier if everyone was the same? To me I believe it is just the opposite. If everyone was the same, then life would be a lot more complicated and boring. People need to be different; we need personality and personal style. I once read a book called The Giver by Lois Lowry, and it gave me an idea of what life would be like if it were all planned out and the same for everyone. In this book, these people all lived in a community where everyone was the same age, had the same birthday and were appointed a job when they were born. They all lived life the same day by day and were afraid of the outside world. I would never want to live a life like that.

The variety of personalities, race, and ethnicity make the world interesting. The different choices people make, good and bad are what make people interesting. Not everyone succeeds in life, not everyone makes mistakes that ruin their life, but that is what makes you, you. No matter if you have a black Mohawk, or long blonde hair, No matter if you snort when you laugh, or just chuckle softly, no matter what anyone says or does, I believe in being yourself.

I hope you enjoyed Britnie’s speech on believing in being yourself.

Lowry, Lois, The Giver, Published 1993, Houghton Mifflin Children’s Books

Pod casting is a way for people to tell their stories, speeches anything. It is a way to get it out in ways that reach people greater than just a small crowd for an audience. It gives you a much larger audience, even though you don’t know the people that listen to it, you still know it is getting out there and people are hearing your opinions and beliefs.

I listened to Remembering all the Boys by Elvia Bautista. I chose this piece because it tolled about a real personal experience that affected her greatly. Her brother was in a gang and was shot and killed by a rivalry gang. She talked about how when she visits her brother’s grave she also visits the graves of boys from the other gangs.

For the introduction of the speech she says she believes that everyone deserves flowers on their graves. The n she gets into the details about her brother and how he died and other boys that died. She talks about how her and her friend put flowers on the graves of all the boys, she believes it shows respect.