Example Of A Satire Essay

Marilyn Monroe once said, “...it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” This applies to my life in pretty much everything I do, because I would much rather have people notice me (even if they don’t like what they see) than be just another face in the crowd. Even if someone hates me, at least it means that they respect me enough to see that there’s something worth hating. It’s much easier to enjoy life when I’m not trying far too hard not to seem ridiculous.

I learned to live this way from my family, mostly my mother. My mother has always taught me that if I don’t act like myself, I’ll attract people who don’t like the real me, but if I act like myself, I’ll attract people who do like the real me. Like my mom, the real me is rather

A lot of my teachers, as well as fellow students, have thought that I am ridiculous, but I honestly take pride in a lot of the things people judge me for. Once, in third grade, my school’s principal stopped me in the hallway on my way to class. I had been reading while I was walking, so when he asked me about my book I thought that I was in trouble. As it turned out, he was interested in the fact that I was reading a book about advanced physics, and I started meeting with him once a week to talk about the book and about my writing. A lot of kids thought that I was a total dork because of this, but I owned it. One day a substitute teacher came in, and when I got called to the principal’s office for my meeting she thought that I was in trouble. Her face told me that she wanted to give me detention just for that, but every time she came into my class from then on, she knew who I was. It’s not that I need attention, which is good because attention isn’t usually what I get, it’s that I believe that everyone should try to make an impact on their environment in some way, however that may