Expository Piece

What matters most is how you see yourself.

In a world where everyone is a critic, what is most important is how your toughest critic, you see yourself. How you view yourself is more important than the thoughts of some anonymous, insignificant stranger on the street that you will most likely never see you again. 

Those people who constantly want to have the approval from every one around them but they are usually the first to fall. Often the media and celebrities tell us that we should be comfortable in our own skin, but most of them who tell us so, have body alerting cosmetic surgery. Michael Jackson is an infamously known musician, what is most sad about Michael is not just his death, but how he ended up towards the latter end of his life. So consumed about how the world around him saw him, he went to great lengths to change how others saw him. He died a shell of his former self-try to appeal to the outside world other than himself. If only he cared more about what he saw in himself then maybe he could be around to this day to entertain the millions like he once did so well. This is the polar opposite of what Holden Caulfield stood for; he did not let others dictate his life.

Though Holden is not a star but a fictional character he is a shining example of how he sees himself and is not afraid to be himself. Often seen wearing his “hunting hat” it is a shining example of how he is comfortable in the way he sees himself. It is a representation of his individuality and to not be the thing he so greatly despises, a phoney. While others would not be caught dead wearing such a daggy hat, Holden embraces it whole heartedly because it meant something to him and he saw it as something he could not let go of. Another person who embodies what matters most is how you see yourself like Holden, is Lady Gaga. 

Lady Gaga is an influential musician who inspired many people young and old to be happy with who they are. From her over the top costumes to her very outlandish lyrics she has always not cared how others viewed her and only cared about how she sees her self. One of her most well known songs “Born This Way” was about as Lady Gaga said herself” is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud”. She does not see her self as the so called “freak” or “weirdo” as she is called on daily basis, but sees her self as a normal average person from humble beginnings.

So in actual fact what matters most is how you see yourself, because you can turn out like Michael Jackson and trying so hard to appeal to everyone else. Or you can be your own person and only care about how you look to oneself and be happy with who you are.