No matter where you went to elementary school, odds are you learned the same lesson that would stick with you the rest of your life. The idea that each individual is different and you must always be yourself. It is during this critical junction in our lives in which we first discover who we really are, and what we’re going to be like as we make our journey towards adulthood. There are many aspects of our lives that we may try to change as we mature, but no matter what everyone will always have a “fwame wesistant” part of your personality, it just may be smaller or larger in many cases.
As the most complex being on earth, it is almost human nature to crave to be perfect. Whether it be trying to get into an Ivy League College, playing a Division I sport, or just winning the school’s QuizBowl. It is in this pursuit of perfection that we often encounter parts of our lives that were essential in our development as an individual, but may not be desirable as life goes on. It is this “fwame wesistant” suit that serves as a constant reminder of what we truly are on the inside
From a personal standpoint, I’m perfectly fine with, and might even prefer, my suit being completely “fwame resistant”. Before you go and think I don’t want to change or improve myself as an individual, because I do, I just want to do it with the principals and morals I truly believe in. While there are probably be things here and there I might want to change, for the most part I’m proud of who I am and the journey it took to get here. I don’t want to have to change anything about myself to become any more “socially acceptable” than I already am. If a friendship or a relationship with a peer or role model is based on parts of your personality that you may have fabricated or don’t fully support, you’re not getting the most out of it, and the friendship you make might be as fake as the characteristics you tried to construct. If people don’t accept me for who I truly am, I probably don’t even want to get close to them anyways.
If I WERE to make any alterations to my Spiderman suit, I’d add some clever designs to it rather than try to burn it. Burning it seems to me like you're desperately trying to destroy or completely do away with a part of your true colors that shaped you as you journeyed through adolescence. What if you work so hard to burn a trait that took so long to develop, and later on in life you change your mind? All you’ll be left with is ashes and a vital part of what makes you different will be scattered all over the floor. Rather than burning your suit, you should try to add on certain qualities on top of your fundamental principals. This way you have a solid base that you have a close personal attachment to, and it allows you to make small adjustments and slowly branch out according to your personality. Growth as an individual is the most ideal ambition, not subtraction. (543)
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