By Jason Dagenhart
Round Table reporter

Why aren’t people happy with themselves? Why do they have this nocuous temptation to berate themselves because they don’t think they live up to their own expectations? They walk down a hallway and see someone much more “attractive” then they are, and suddenly they aren’t happy with their looks or their body. Or they are walking by the football field and they wish they could play as well as the teenagers they pass.

What makes a teenager think this way? Is it some sort of inferiority issue where they think someone is better than they are? I don’t quite get it. What makes someone better than someone else? Nothing, that’s what, one person is no better than another. Sure they may be better at sports or something but they are still no better as a person.

We should be happy with ourselves. We are who we are (no, not the Ke$ha song) and we should be proud of that fact. Nothing is as important as being ourselves and most people, especially teenagers, lose sight of that fact. They go through all the stressful situations that life puts them in and they forget about being themselves when they see other people and they succumb to peer-pressure to be what they aren’t.

As much as we say we try to be ourselves, we eventually do something that we normally wouldn’t and succumb to peer-pressure and we suddenly don’t know who we are or if we even like it.

The best way to combat this is to just be happy with life and who you are.

What I’m saying is just trying to be yourself all the time, because there is no one more critical of you, then you.