Bliss
I want to be accepted for who I am. I am a loner, a complete outcast who drifts from place to place as a shadow. No one ever notices the new shoes I'm wearing today, or that I did my hair any different from yesterday. Why?
People look at others if they're similar to themselves. Preps look at preps and say "hey, you're cool," but if they look at a Goth they say "hey, you're weird." The reason is difference. People don't enjoy believing that they're the same as everyone. We're just a bunch of animals with a few differences in shape, size, sound, etc.
I'm different, and I'm proud of it. I enjoy being who I am and doing what I do. I could care less if some yuppy thinks that I'm geaky for wearing glasses instead of contacts, or that I write just for the enojoyment of it. Who are they to judge? They are nobody, just like me.
If you stop for a minute, you'll notice that we're not so different after all. We all need to eat and drink. Why would someone want to berate another person? For the sheer enjoyment of it? I just don't see how that's possible. Maybe I should try it sometime, but I doubt I'll like it at all. So, that's it. We're different. Big deal. "In cyberspace, we are learning to
live in virtual worlds," expresses
Sherry Turkle in her essay Cyberspace
and Identity (272). There is no
better way to describe the topic of
gender switching than to say we live
in virtual worlds. In the essay Boy,
You Fight Like a Girl, Alex Pham
describes many of the different
gender switching aspects that go
into the world of online gaming.
What can we do to make the preceding paragraph an effective introduction?
Note that the writer utilizes two excellent quotations.
Meghan Daum explores the enjoyment
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