People In The Way example essay topic

The first person I observed was at the park. Actually it was two people. It seemed to be a young couple and they had a child. They looked to be about 19 or 20. My first impression is that here we have two people who messed up in life, had a child, and are starting their life in debt. The more I watched them I felt kind of angry.

Why wasn't one of them working at least, but then I thought that maybe they were taking a break from this world and getting away together as a family for just a brief moment so they could relax a remember what life is all about. As they walked to their car I saw them laughing and having a good time. Then the father put the baby in the back set and then kissed the mother and pulled her close. This made me feel warm inside and lets me know that there are always people trying to make the best out of a bad situation. The next person I observed was my neighbor. This man has a wife with two of her own kids, but they have no kids together.

I see him everyday and when I do see him he looks so stressed and confused with slight frustration mixed in all that. I fell that sometimes he wonders if he make the right decision of taking on the responsibility of raisin children that re not his own. You can tell he struggles to make a good living because his truck is starting to look a little worn out and the house is which I fairly new is looking a little run down and could use a little care and attention. His yard I not well kept either. He lets I grow about a foot and a half tall and then tries to mow it with a little riding lawnmower which takes him all day to do. Then he has huge piles of grass, which he does not bother to rake up.

Now I am not sure if is just a procrastinator or if maybe life is really getting to him and he is just a little depressed. Either way he is still a great guy and I know he tries his hardest to win the battles of his everyday life. My next unknowingly victim is just a young man in the TC parking lot. He is well dressed and drives a brand new truck with many expensive modifications. I get mixed emotions towards people like this. I am not sure if he is trying to impress everyone he meets or maybe he just really enjoys fixing up vehicles.

For the most part I have a feeling it is for attention. You can tell that by the way he walks that he is just begging for attention. He walks with his chest out and shoulders back; it kind of looks as though he is ready to fight the world to prove worthiness. Perhaps he does not get enough attention at home or maybe he gets too much attention that just simply leaves him always begging for more. I noticed that when he got in his truck he looked around to see if he could find a group of people standing somewhere.

He found some people and rolled down his windows and turned his music up al loud as it would got and drove by them as slow as his truck could go to ensure that everyone noticed him. This further let me know what kind of person he is. I figure he has low self-image and will do anything to get himself noticed by others. In my opinion that is a sad way to live your life. This fourth person is a girl 8 in the mall parking lot. I thought that this would be a good place to find someone interesting to observe and man was I right.

This girl is about twenty or so and could be the poster girl for little Miss Barbie. She could not seem more stuck up if her life depended on it. I see her and pray that I do not have a daughter like her. Let me brake it down for you, she was in a new corvette, that had a sticker on it that said princess and the license plate said brat. She had a walk about her that just made you want to go up and ask her if those pants she has on are tight enough. She came out of the mall with two other people who where carrying her bags for her because she was not about to carry them herself.

They got to her car and put her bags up and took the top of the car for her also. She proceeded to turn her music up and rev up the engine to draw more attention to her. Well it worked everybody in a two hundred-foot radius turned to look at her. Maybe I am wrong is saying this, and yes I use sarcasm, I wish there were more people like her in the world today.

Then maybe we would not try so hard to impress people. My last person is biker. Now of course many people think these people as rude and thoughtless people. I admit that when I was younger I felt the same way. Seeing their huge guys with their tattoos and baldheads would scare the crap out of me. All that can be thought is man I hope I don't make them mad and get hurt.

But of course I am now older and have a few tattoos myself so I no view these people as bad. I figure they are just expressing themselves in their own artistic way. To tell the truth I have worked with a couple of these people in the construction world and for the most part they seem to be really nice guys. After observing these people I learned a few things about myself.

I learned that I am quick to judge people in the way that the world wants me to judge them, but if I watch them for a while I think of the good in them. I also learned that I am a little more opened minded about the way I think of people and do my best to not make a snap judgment towards them..