Dealing with Discrimination

"So many people... so many faces. We meet them every day but some tend to play a game of hide and seek that the crowd gives up when they feel that those people are not willing to be found."                  -KRISTIA ALYZA VILLANUEVA.

Discrimination can be a very big factor for a person to get low self esteem. It triggers a person to become depressed or become aloof to people and have a fear of rejection whenever he is into a new crowd.

For me discrimination is a very serious issue for an individual, because this can cause people to lose their self confidence and lead to self rejection. But most of the time, it is an issue which is mostly neglected by people. Often, I see teens getting discriminated by their fellow students wherein they get to be criticized with their good works. The worst thing that I have seen was when a poor kid was getting to be criticized by other people but the critic actually has a plan of using that person to get ideas and earn recognition.

Most of the time, discriminated people try to fit in and give kindness to the crowd so that they’d be accepted but that’s a very big mistake. Oftentimes, the crowd may abuse the kindness of that person while he thinks that he is accepted.

As an individual, I became a victim of discrimination. But I can say that it wasn't a serious one. I could say that it’s the main problem of the people to judge every single person they see before they get to know them. I admit that even I, sometimes made that kind of mistake, which oftentimes hurt somebody. But I can also say that I, myself was the one who made a fault for them not to know me personally. I oftentimes become aloof to people, either trying to go with the flow or even trying to hide myself from them, especially when I actually don’t like their attitude and interests. But I realized that it was a little bit of mistake of mine to hide myself to other people when I am actually meant to be accepted and maybe even stand out (but not that I’m saying that I really tried to be the one to stand out). So, I tried to let people get to know me better and gave myself a chance to be myself and never attempt to pretend to be someone I am not. Soon, people started to get to know me better and even accepted me for who I am –because “this is me”.