Personality Vs Personality

Sometimes A Second is Enough
It is a common saying that one’s company has a strong impact on one’s personality, for it can have a huge influence over how one thinks, feels, or perhaps behaves. Therefore, the culture that one hangs out in becomes one’s persona. Along those sixteen years, I have bumped into many people, many friends, and many influential personalities, thus I can tell for a fact that I have learned something from each human being. Merely, I have analyzed them later as having a negative or positive impact on me. Taking two cousins an example, I have not interacted with them much due to our geographical location difference, however, the time we spent together was enough to determine the aura they constructed with their presence.

Starting off with Zahbia, she went to a private school which emphasized education a lot more than fashion and events. Her parents, in particular, cultivated an academic environment even at home, as I have witnessed Zahbia spending hours studying for a test, absolutely ignoring her surrounding. However, I have also witnessed Rimsha spending hours getting ready for school, absolutely ignoring her grades. Since Rimsha attended a coed school, and her friend’s circle consisted of mostly “rich girls,” she was always into getting the best accessories according to the latest fashions. I vividly remember the time when our extended family was getting ready to attend a reception, and I was specifically tieing my headscarf when Rimsha remarked, “You are going to wear the headscarf to a wedding as well? I mean it ruins your beauty...Look at me.” At that moment, I was literally speechless not only because I was told something negative about my appearance, but because Rimsha pursuing the same religion as me made such a comment. Anyways, this highlights the extremities between the ambiences in which Rimsha and Zahbia have grown up, nevertheless they both are my cousins on the maternal

Zahbia has taught me to take everything in life lightly, to forgive mistakes of others, and foremost, to accept the way you are. She has assured my personality and values, since finding someone much similar to me secured me that who I am is the right person to be. Nonetheless, Rimsha seems to have attempted in influencing me negatively, and perhaps shattering my confidence, for she questioned my values. Clearly, she did not appreciate the person I was, and maybe was searching for a alteration in my personality, appearance, values, or mindset. Whenever I was around her, I felt as if I was backward and unsophisticated, hence was conscious of myself. However, when I was out of her presence, I returned back to my normal state. It is genuinely funny how two cousins living in the same house can make me sense either zeal or confusion: confused and unable to recognize my own