Sticky Personalities

Sticky Personalities

Most of society is divided into groups. From sports to careers to school, people make their mark on their surroundings by the way they live and the people they choose to live with. This act of owning a place in a community is often caused by tacit codes that are formed as friends and neighboring people begin to identify what is allowed and what is frowned upon, which is caused by interactions that continually occur in a specific sequence. This kind of interaction most often occurs between high school students who find their best fit with surrounding people who appear to dress, talk, and even walk in the same fashion. Unspoken rules create boundaries between people inside a group from people outside a group due to the uniqueness and variance that group has compared to the people surrounding them. This is where most students find who they truly are and what fits their personality, which often determines their characteristics that they will hold for the rest of their life.

Any student who enters a new place at a new school knows that it isn't easy to simply fit in with their surroundings. For instance, if a new student meets another student, and they appear to be future friends, the bonding doesn't actually begin until they get to know each other, because they don't know if they even have the same personality and share the same characteristics. Often times, school is a place where personalities clash and bring out distinguishing factors that a group holds, making them both unique and variant from people around. As a high school student who sees these sorts of interactions during an average day, I know that apparel is a huge part of what distinguishes groups. I often see students who have outrageous hair styles (which I'm not against) spending time with each other. This is due to the self-identity that these people find as they set standards that they hold for one another. These students