The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” means that you should do something about your relationship with someone if you don’t know if they are your friend or not. The first part of the quote which says “If you are constantly wondering where you stand with someone…” , means that you are always thinking about what kind of relationship you have with someone because you are thinking if they are a true friend or if they are just faking to be your friend. The next part of the quote says “maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” , this means that you should stop doing nothing about it and start doing something such as asking if they are your friend if they will have your back and if they care about you. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” is a very powerful and important quote to follow because it shows that you need to know who your friends are and who is not so that you don’t get into fights along the way and just end the relationship earlier before it gets into a bigger problem. This quote can help many get out of trouble quicker and have friends that will help you out when you need it. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” will show many people that if you have a problem with someone maybe you should think about the way they are acting toward you and if you have a strong relationship with them. The quote applied to me when I was at school. A girl was good friends with me the year before, in fifth grade, but once we got to middle school she stopped talking to me and seemed like she didn’t want to do anything with me. When I noticed this I automatically thought “Did I do something wrong? Did I upset her?” I was thinking about this for a long time in sixth grade without saying anything to her. About two months ago I realized I should say something because I wanted to still have the strong, friendly relationship we had in fifth grade. When I finally decide to say something I just started a simple conversation. I asked how her day was going and how she liked middle school, after these simple questions I said that I didn’t see or talk to her that often anymore and she told me that she wasn’t sure if I wanted to talk to her. We became good friends again and still are. This instance connects to this quote because instead of just keeping things the way they were when we weren’t good friends I stopped “standing” or stopped wondering if I did something wrong and started “walking” or started talking. I hope that the quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” can apply to many in their lives so that they could have a strong relationship with people who want to be friends or stop being friends with fake friends that won’t help when it is needed.
"If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and stop walking." This means that if you wonder if you have a place in someone's friend group, in other words where you stand with him, maybe then you have to start walking to a friend that will have more respect for you. Sometimes if you don’t follow this quote, you can get humiliated by your so called friend, and then you get into a fight that no one likes, This instance sort of applied to me when in fifth grade I had two really good friends. Their names were Manas and Sandarsh. We used to make comics together, talk about life, hang out at Manas's house, play chess, etc. When Manas moved however, me and Sandarsh still were really good friends, and kept in touch with Manas. However, as Sandarsh came into sixth grade, we had different homerooms and classes which meant that we couldn't talk to each other. When I did meet him and try to talk to him, he was instead with Supraj and his group of friends whom I told him about, as he and him were both in the same homeroom, and they both started playing games together. I was seething with anger at hims because I was the reason he became friends with supraj, and now he made a clique with Supraj. Part of me was wishing that I had never introduced the to one another. That didn't mean that him and Manas weren’t friends, because we still called him every week a different times. So, I had a plan. I started walking, then as I was walking, I casually told Manas that Sandarsh had a clique and wasn’t responsive anymore. Kind of harsh, but it sort of worked. Manas told Sandarsh off for having a clique, and then it was like old times, the three of us. We made a hangouts group and called each other to go on hangouts whenever we wanted to talk. We then went on online games, and so forth. Then, I decided to start standing some more, and I became friends, sort of, with Supraj and his group again. This quote can relate to this situation, because when I wasn’t in on the group, I started walking away, and in the end we became friends again. It is important to know when people are on your side or not, otherwise you could get into a spot of trouble. You should also know why people are on your side. Is the reason the followers the person has, or the trends the person set? Is it how much you can get from the person, or is it simply just friendship? You have to look at many factors, and If you get to know you just want to get popularity from the person, you have to start walking, because if you get in a fight with the person down the road, you will regret it because you don’t have the popularity shared with the person anymore, and people will go against you.
“ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” This is a very inspiring quote. One reason this quote was inspiring to me is because that it directly correlates with specific scenarios in my life. As you analyze this quote the meaning gets deeper and deeper and deeper. Honestly it was surprising to me how 20 words have so much meaning to them. So now I will analyze it. There are two parts to the quote. The first part is, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” This means that if you keep having to think about the relationship you have with someone. Where you stand means how “far” or how “deep” you are in a relation with someone. The “stages” of friendship are usually stranger, acquaintance, friend, best friend, and so on. The second part of the quote is, “... maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” This part of the quote means that if you're doubtful at your relationship with someone instead of sitting there and waiting for something to magically happen get up and do something. If you don’t get up and face your doubts your whole relationship with that person will collapse. This seems like a very common thing that happens in many relationships. Summing it all up the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” means that if you are doubtful about your relationship with someone you should not wait for it to fix it itself. Instead you should actually do something about your collapsing relationship. Somethings you can do to “fix” your relations are to personally talk to the person, play with the person, or share your feelings with that person. Like I stated before the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” directly corresponds to my life. To not point out any names I will call my friend “S1” standing for “Student 1.” It was a good 4th grade day. It was probably a week after the beginning of the school year. I wanted to make new friends. We had to work together for a project. I was paired up with S1. We worked on the project a lot. I thought I was friends with S1. The project was soon over and we stopped working together. I soon started doubting our friendship. So I started talking to him at recess. Soon me and S1 started sitting with each other at lunch. We soon became “proper” friends. That was the end of my story. If you were wondering, yes, I am still friend with S1. So that is the end of my essay. I hope you enjoyed how my life correlates with the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” Thank you!
The quote, “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking,” really made me think. This quote, to me, means that if you feel like there is an issue between you and your friends, you should do something about it. Rather than waiting for everything to try to fix itself, you should step in and do something about it. If you feel like you and your friends are growing apart, maybe it is for the best or it might be for the worst. Either way, you should go and find out why it happened so that you won’t be sad and wonder for the rest of your life why you guys ever split up in the first place. It made me wonder if I really did stick and if I really did hang out with my friends as much as I should. It truly made me wonder if I consider my “friends” to be my actual friends. The first part of the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” means that if you don’t know what you are with someone, whether it is friend or BFF’s or enemies or even long lost brothers, you should find out. You should do something about the relationship between you and the other person to try to improve it or at least get to know each other. You should fix your relationship and friendship with the other person by getting to know him better. Talking to him and sitting with him and inviting him over to your house are just some of the ways that you can improve the relationship with the person.
This quote also applies to me in many ways. I remember it clearly, it was a beautiful sunny day in the fourth grade, in my school Indiana Avenue. All my friends had the other classes and I was left all alone with a bunch of weird random children and an amazing teacher which still applies to me in GnT, no offense classmates. I could remember being the one who, not to brag, used to be the absolute smartest genius person in the class, I used to ace all my tests and be the first one done. But one day, things changed, some kid in my class, (I’ll call him Mark Zuckerberg), challenged me. I was being cocky and stretching my feet out and he suddenly jumped up and slammed his test on the teacher’s desk, infuriating me. But I liked this kid, he reminded me of myself, annoying, smart, and handsome. Mr. Zuckerberg and I shortly became best friends as we used to compete for the title for the smartest student in Room 28. But he had a different class in 5th grade and we split up not really talking to each other. I missed the idea of having a competitor infuriating me so I talked to him about it and sure enough we became friends again. This quote struck me as I had a connection to it. I remembered going through something like this, and sure enough, walking made things much better!
The quote “If you are constantly wondering where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” is quite an intriguing quote. The way I see it, it means that if you are constantly wondering whether you belong in a group or whether a friend is really your friend and not someone who is just using you to copy homework or get free lunch, then you have to do something about it. To shorten that, sometimes you feel that someone isn’t really your friend. You may question their loyalty to you or their acceptance of you. If that is so, you must do something about it. You have to ask them what they think of you. If you do not think they are not giving a honest answer, it is time to move on. Get some friends that accept you as you are. Not somebody who is only with the “cool kids” and agrees to be friends with you only because you seem to be on trend. These people will betray you as soon as they see someone cooler is in town. In Harry Potter, Peter Pettigrew seems to be loyal to James, Harry’s dad, through and fro. But as soon as Pettigrew realised Lord Voldemort is a bigger bully than James, he betrayed the Potter family and helped Voldemort eliminate Harry’s parents. False friends can do something like that to you and they must be avoided. This quote assists in doing so.
One time when that quote applied to me was in recently this year. I shall refer to this person by the code name Frog. On the first day of sixth grade, I met Frog on the bus. Both of us shared an interest in Pokemon and soon we became friends. One day Frog tickled me for fun and discovered that I cannot stand it. That part is true, I am extremely ticklish and and hate being tickled. Ever since then he started tickling me everyday. I stopped sitting next to him on the bus because of that. I usually sit next to my other friends but they all leave on the stop before mine. Frog just moves to the seat right next to me after they get off. One day, I sat in the very back because Frog usually sits in the front. Frog, however, pushed through the swarm of kids sitting getting off the bus just so he could torture me. I realised that Frog was not really my friend from that day. I asked him and Frog said that he knows that I will not stop being his friend. It seemed like hopeless case so I moved on. I stopped being his friend (though he still doesn’t seem to have noticed).
I was “constantly wondering where I stand with someone,” so I stopped “standing and” started “walking”. This quote is really helpful because it lets you know what to do when we are doubting one’s friendship with us. It is time to stop standing and start walking.
The quote “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” has a lot of meaning. It means that sometimes when you have to see how you compare with someone else, you should probably start improving. When you are comparing yourself with someone, you are probably thinking if you are better than them or worse than them. When you think about that, you probably aren’t confident enough that you are doing well enough. This quote can apply for many circumstances. It can apply for grades, relationships, sports, jobs, etc. I believe that if you stop thinking about where you stand with someone, you will do better because you aren’t having that extra stress of having to think about being better than someone. You shouldn’t be comparing yourself with them in the first place because you don’t even know their goals and their journey. It could be totally different from what YOU are aiming for, so comparing yourself will change your route. Comparing yourself to others also lowers your self-esteem, which makes you less likely to reach your goals. Another quote that is like this one is: “Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.” - Albert Einstein. This quote shows that you should not compare with others or take negative comments into your mind because they do not KNOW you. They do not know your aims, goals, journey, and path. They do not know what you are going through and they do not know what you are trying to achieve. The only person who should be judging you is yourself, because you are the only one who knows yourself, your goals, and what you have been through the best. The fish, in Albert Einstein’s quote, is the one receiving negative comments, and is getting influenced by them. At first, he did not seem to care what they were doing and didn’t compare himself. He tried to reach his own goal, but then the haters came and told him negative comments and called him stupid. This made him stop trying to achieve what he wanted to do and, who knows, maybe he could have reached the top of the tree. Albert Einstein looked at a way to explain what people all over the world go through in a simple way. He put it in a simple way, but it still makes an impact in the way it conveys a message. One example of how both these quotes take effect in real life is when you are trying to achieve something that does not happen a lot. One instance is when a kid wants to start a business. The people around them do not believe they could start a business because he/she is just a “kid,” so the kid is discouraged and doesn’t believe in himself or herself that he/she could achieve starting a business. The kid should have ignored what the people around them are saying. When you compare yourself with others, you could feel discouraged because it might lead you to think that you have flaws because you aren’t as good as them in one thing or another.
This quote has such a powerful message. “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking,” portrays a powerful image on one’s life, and encourages he or she to move forward. No one can live standing in one place. They have to keep moving and make a difference under the relationship. Sometimes it can be difficult to fit in snug and tight in one position and it takes time. But you may not fit everywhere you go.This relates to the image the quote portrays. The first part says, “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” which shows how one connection may not be perfect, and realizing a rocky relationship between you and another person. If you know the person you have a connection with isn’t being cooperative, or the relation just isn’t working out, you have to understand it. Nobody deserves to live under a rock, and you must take action. The second part states, “...maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” This shows that you can’t just stand there and deal with someone who is making this relation not work out. Sometimes it’s ok if a relationship doesn’t work out, but it isn’t ok if you aren’t taking care of the issue and setting it aside. Move on and fix what you need to, and get rid of the things you don’t need. Staying in one place is not going to make the situation any better. Trust me, I have had experience. This one girl was my best friend all throughout Elementary from beginning to end. We met in kindergarten, and were friends up to 5th grade. We would always have fun together, and we both enjoyed being friends with each other, but as middle school came along, we drifted apart. I thought we were still friends, but I wasn’t sure if she really liked me. She would never do anything with me and I did not know if she wanted me to be friends with her anymore, and I let that happen. I stood there wondering what to do, but could never decide. I figured that I needed a new pair of shoes to help me walk along. I faced her and we started a normal conversation. As we talked, I realized that I needed to open up to her about how I felt, and I asked her to do the same. She told me how middle school was really different, and how she had a lot more going on, and that she still wanted to be my friend, but was afraid to open up. I gave her some space until she had the time, and now we are best friends yet again. This shows how walking can make a big difference. Maybe if I hadn’t opened up to her about everything, we wouldn’t be friends today. This experience expresses the meaning of the quote, and the feeling associated with it.
This quote really means a lot. “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” We, as humans are always comparing ourselves to others. Sometimes we do it, or our mothers. If John is smart, you are dumb! Alex is a fast runner, then what am I next to him? This is basically the worst thing you can do. Just stop comparing! Many times I get fed up with my sister telling me that she is nothing compared to Mishri, Mishri is so smart, and I just am not. If you really believe that you are not as great as someone else, stop thinking that way, and get to work. Start working hard to surpass that person. You stand below a very athletic person, than you have to start “walking” and training hardly and smartly to become better than him/her. In life, I have been comparing myself, and trying to figure out where I stand in front of my friends. “I am five times better than Jiya, and Lori is ten times better than me.” While comparing, I never thought about trying to beat them, just because they are my friends. If I really disliked someone, and they were better than me, I’d do anything to be better than them. At times, I will try to be better than someone I emulate, such as my father. I never have thought about rivaling my friends. I always thought that I will stay the same, and can not surpass them. That was not until I learned about our Growth Mindset. If we have a growth mindset, we can achieve any goal we want.We also look for challenges. When we start to “walk” beside the person, we look up for a challenge, to improve in ________. While we have a fixed mindset, we don’t want challenges, and we always think that we can not improve in a certain subject or area. Have you ever thought about what your mindset is? Take this quiz, and you’ll find out.https://mindsetonline.com/testyourmindset/step1.php. If you really answer with what you think is right, you can improve. Having a Fixed Mindset shouldn’t upset you, but it should encourage you to work smarter and harder to have a growth mindset. Should you really be comparing yourself with others? Well, I think that you can, and sometimes you should. If you take it the right way, you will try to improve on what you are OK on.If you always compare your ability and skill to others, nor should you compare others with yourself or someone else. My family doesn’t always compare me with others, because they know what my capability is, and they do not know what their capability might be. It is simple to decide where you stand next to someone, but is it really that easy to walk up, and surpass them? I personally am inspired by this quote, and I’ll always try harder to walk with the person, or ahead of them.
"If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking." Once I read this quote, I knew that everyone in this world should read or listen to this quote because to me, this quote means that if you wonder about where your relationship is with someone, stop wondering and start discovering. It usually seems like you know where you are at your relationship with someone whether the relationship is as a friend, girlfriend, or boyfriend. But, the truth is that once you start thinking about it, you are basically lost, and you need to find a way to get back to the path that will never separate your relationship apart. These relationships does not only have to deal with human beings, it can deal with challenges, goals, fears, and much more. These relationships should not make you compare yourself with others. Once I read this quote, I was inspired to find who I truly am underneath all the heaps of craziness in my life. I should start thinking about who I am as a person and how far apart I am in all my relationships. To me, this experience expresses the meaning of the quote, and the feelings associated with it. I like how this quote can mean different things to different people, but this quote still moves people and makes people make efforts into making their life a better place. These relationships may make you have a fixed mindset, but you should not be upset, but you should encourage yourself to work harder and smarter to having a growing mindset, and a growth in your mindset. As I said, this quote can help people in many different circumstances. Another way of stating this quote is, "If you wonder about where you are in life, stop standing there and do nothing, but start running and discover who you are." For example, in my life, I do not know where I am with my old friends in elementary school since I can not contact them in any way, but I will try really hard to become very good friends again. I feel like for everyone, that you the relationship is between you and the world. So, if you are constantly wondering about why you are on this earth, you should do something better, incredible, anything to improve life on earth for everyone. Instead of sitting at home in front of you television watching different channels. God sent you here to this earth for a good reason. Maybe to: make life on earth better, help those in need, learn how to be patient and understanding, be disciplined, learn how to work together, change the world, make efforts, and so much more.This quote can help many get out of trouble quicker and have friends that will help you out when you need it. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” will show many people that if you have a problem with someone maybe you should think about the way they are acting toward you and if you have a strong relationship with them. Overall, this quote can help shape our lives.
This quote is something everyone should remember in life. Don’t make yourself fit in a place that is not even right for you. I don’t think you ever have to act like someone you aren’t. All of us have our own place to just be us. So if you are in a situation where you cannot act like yourself maybe it’s just time to move on. If they want to be with you, they will accept who you are. I remember a time in preschool when I learned to walk away. I have always been a quiet and conserved person who becomes talkative once I’m close to them. I had a friend who tried to change the way I acted. Instead of being the quiet person I was, she forced me to be someone I wasn’t. She made me talk to people I didn’t know and it made me uncomfortable. She asked me to change who I was and I wasn’t ready for that. I didn’t need her telling me what to do. I was happy and confident with who I was. I didn’t need a person who would bring my self-esteem down and not be confident or believe in myself. So at the end I decided to end the friendship. I wasn’t going to stick around a person who didn’t make me feel good. I learned that sometimes there are going to be people who want to change and control you, but those are not the people you want to be surrounded with. Sometimes the right thing to do is just walk away. You should never feel the need to compare yourself with the people around you. You are who you are and you can’t change that and everyone should be proud of who they are. Don’t bring yourself down by thinking about what others think of you. Be your own true self and everyone will like you. In the Divergent series you can see the main character, Tris, standing up for what she wants. All her life her parents have taught her to be a selfless person because her family is part of the Abnegation fraction. When it comes time for Tris to chose how she wants to live the rest of her life, she chooses to become part of the Dauntless and be brave and outgoing. Though she grew up in the Abnegation fraction, she felt like an outsider. Being selfless did not come to her naturally like how it did for her friends and family. Because of this she “walked” to Dauntless so she could be herself. By joining Dauntless, Tris had a fresh beginning where she could experience and do the things she dreamed of. Tris stood up for herself and left the people who she did not fit in with all her life. Through personal experience and the books I have read, humans tend to change themselves for others around them. However, once they find who they are, nothing and no one can stop them from being their own self.
The quote “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” is pretty confusing to be frank. But, once I thought about it real hard, I started to understand. This quote is mainly about you and your friends. How your friends act with you, and if you should be with them or not. It also has to do with any other relationship you are in. This quote really inspires me and tells me to discover. This is because you do not know what you are in for. When it says “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” in the first part, I think it means that you constantly have to question yourself if someone is your true friend or not in a relationship. This is because sometimes, not all the time, someone could just pretend to be your friend. They do this to not hurt your feeling. That part is really important because it leads you right into the next part of the quote. The next part is “… maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” If you think that someone is not your friend, you shouldn’t just remain silent… do something. Ask the person questions. You should at least know what happened that made you and your friend split. Like I said before, people sometimes fake your friendship so that you don’t feel hurt. Well, it hurts more when you find out that they are not your true friend that could care for you at any moment. So, you should do something. I know it sounds weird but just listen. You should go out to you ex- friend and discover their inner thoughts. Just explore. Question them as much as you want. You don’t want to feel even more depressed than before. If you feel awkward talking to that person because he or she spreads rumors about you, and is making you feel guilty then ask someone else to help you. A teacher, a parent, or even a real friend could help. Real friends would be with you at any time, and especially at a rough one. They could help you. Don’t hide your feelings. It will make you feel even worse. Nobody wants that to happen. After understanding this quote thoroughly, I found out that this quote has been associated with me before. This instance happened quite recently. Moreover, this one tells me to continue following the quote… and after this, you should too. Sit back, relax, grab a box of popcorn, and get ready to listen to this story. Just remember, I’m not naming any names. It all started in Pre-School. She was my first childhood friend. We used to play, laugh, eat together, and anything-best friends would do with each other. We were practically sisters from another mother. We were best friends until last summer. Something unusual had happened. She wouldn’t talk, text, or even come to my house. I was upset. I did not know what had happened. Did I say something? Did I do something? All I wanted to find out if I was the one to break the relationship. And if she was the one, I wanted to know why. But then I realized that she was in the same class as me in 6th grade. I finally had the courage to talk to her while doing a project. I started with “Hi” and then my daily catch phrase, “How’s life?” We started a neat conversation. After that, we turned into friends again. We weren’t best friends… we just stayed friends. I was just happy that my friend and I got back together. The same thing will happen to you if you open your mouth and think of this quote.
“If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” After staring into space and asking people about this quote, I finally understood what it meant. I soon realized that I have experienced some of these problems on my own. I have experienced many instances in which this quote applies to. They have occurred to me in dance, school, and in track. I like this quote because it shows that if you have to keep trying to impress someone or if they are putting you down, then they are not your friends. Those kind of people are not worth your friendship and your valuable time. This quote is telling us that you don’t have to change the way you act or behave in front of someone just because they don’t approve of it. You should be yourself and act your own way freely without someone intimidating you to stop. I have experienced this matter before. When I was in dance class, a few years ago, we had a girl who was so good in our class. She would always get compliments from the teachers and cold do all sorts of splits and leaps. The teacher would always compare us to how good she was and we would feel bad about ourselves. So then one day during practice, I decided to be her friend thinking that she would help me get better and we would be stay friends. I went up to her during our water break and asked her if she wanted to be my friend. She agreed after a few minutes of consulting with herself. I was really happy, and thought that I finally had a chance of getting better thanks to the help of my new friend. After class I went to her house and we had fun. We had practiced dancing and choreographing our own type of dance. Though when we were choreographing we had some fun, she always made herself always in the front and me as a backup dancer. I did not really care, but sometimes when I asked if we could both be in the front, she was really mean and was really sassy. She had said only the good dancer could be in the front and that I wasn’t nearly good enough for it. After that I never spoke to her unless she asked me something or made me back her up. I felt like I always had to impress her when doing things and I was never as good as she wanted me to. I was a little bit sad because she would make me change the way I dance to a completely different style. A style that I didn’t always understand. I always thought that maybe she wasn’t really my friend and was just pretending. After a while I stopped being friends with her and made new friends who were nicer and cared about me. We stayed friends ever since and were still going to each other’s house and hang out every weekend. This are the type of friends you should have. Not the ones in where they judge you and you have to constantly think about changing the way you act for them. This is what I believe this quote means. In dance class was one of the instances where I had experienced this quote. I think we all learned so many things from this and many of the future quotes but I truly think this was the one that applied to me in my life.
This quote has a very thorough meaning to it. After reading this quote, I found out that it applied to me the most this year! I used to wonder where I stood against my friends and I soon found out, which ones were my true friends and which ones I had to end my friendship with. I found out which ones were the people who cared about me, the ones I could start walking with and the ones I could leave behind. This quote demonstrates a lot of meaning to it and if you understand the full meaning of it. I definitely know where I stand next to in my friend list and who I can walk with. Sure, some friends aren’t as important as others but I know I can trust all of them. At the beginning of the year, I had friends who I thought were very nice and people I could trust, but as the year passed, I wondered where I stood against my “friends,” and even though it was hard for me, I had to break a few friendships, stop standing, and start walking. There are also a few instances where this quote reminds me of good steps I took in my friendships. Last year, I had a friend who I used to hang out a lot with and we used to do a lot things together but this year, he never came up to me and we didn’t get together to hang out for a long time. I thought, where I stand next to him, so I decided to start walking. One day, I went up to him and naturally, the words came out of my mouth and he made me smile and laugh. I noticed at that point that many of my friends from the past years had moved on and I had to take a step and take action. This quote is really trying to say that you have to understand that others may have moved on and you may not have even noticed, so you’re the one who will have to take the steps to start moving forward and start walking. Sometimes, you may have to leave people behind for you to move ahead. You should realize where you are in the race and know when n to move ahead by yourself. It makes you realize that who your real friends are, the ones who will have your back, who will cry when your crying, who will stand up for you when you are alone. It may hurt to find out who your fake friends are but that’s the time when you start walking instead of standing. That’s when you know it’s time to move on. When the time is right, it will automatically come to you when it’s time to start walking and moving and stop staying in one place. Even though it may be difficult to move on and leave some things behind, it’s all going to be for the better!
“If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” The first thing that popped in mind to me when I read this quote was about friendship. To me this quote means that you shouldn’t always be trying to juggle friendships with someone. If you don’t know where you are in your relationship with someone then you probably aren’t very good friends with that person.
The first part of this quote is mainly talking about knowing where you are in the social status of someone. Weather you are an acquaintance, a half friend, a fake friend, just friends, or BFF’s you should know where you are with a friend. If you don’t know where you stand with a “friend” then that means that either 1) you have never brought it up, 2) you don’t time with each other and haven’t really reached the point where you are true friends who can have fun and share personal things to each other, 3) someone in the relationship is trying to make it work when really you know that the other person (or you) doesn’t really care about it, 4) one person is just trying to be kind to the other (but not friends.) I know these categories well because many of the friendships I have had fit into these. Being in these categories aren’t good things and either you start walking your way up to being true friends and knowing where you are as friend OR you should walk right out of their lives because friendship takes dedication and if you don’t even KNOW where you are in YOUR relationship 9 part 2 of the quote) , then you probably should reconsider your friendship and dedication to one another.
In life you will have many types of people. Enemies, acquaintances, friends, and many more. The most important to me is friendship. A TRUE friend (emphasis on the true) is someone who you can share your deepest thoughts and secrets to ; someone who will sit with you when you are lonely or hurt instead of being with others; a true friend will share some of their lunch with you when you accidentally forget yours at home. This is how I recognize true friends from fake ones. I have had many incidents with fake friends. In school I like to be very social around other people and students and like to make friends. Unfortunately only SOME of them were/are real. One incident I’ve had with fake friends is with one girl who I used to be good friends. She was in my homeroom and I didn’t know many people in my homeroom. One day she asked to sit with me at lunch and I said okay. Many people had warned me that she can sometimes be annoying but I didn't listen to them. Pretty soon we were good friends but she would always do small things that would annoy me. Sometimes my hair gets messy and she would always correct me and say “Jiselle you should fix your hair it doesn’t look good.” Eventually these small kept pulling on until I couldn’t take it anymore. Whenever she would say something that annoyed me I would find something that small that would annoy her just to get her to stop. One day one of my friends overheard the girl talking to someone and saying rude things about me. I still try to be nice to her every now and then but now I know for sure that she is and was a fake friend and was just “hanging out” with me to be friends with MY OTHER friends.
All together this quote try's to say that if you find yourself dealing with a fake friend or someone who doesn't care about your friendship, then you shouldn't be friends with that person anymore because they aren't worth your time and effort.
To me, I think the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” means that you have to stop comparing yourself with others. There are some people who are always thinking, “I’m so much dumber than this person” or “I’m so much more awesome than that kid.” To be honest, no one will really care about that on your deathbed or at your funeral. They’re not going to say something like, “This person was a whole lot better than my boss.” How you think you are compared to other people won’t matter in life. Most of the time, you won’t be judged by how popular you were in school or work, but by how well you did in school or how hard you worked. If you still think that where you stand with someone is important, than you should at least work to get even with that person if he/she is better than you. There are situations where your ranking with someone else matters. Like in school, not with popularity but how hardworking you are. Smarts also helps too. Most likely, most people think that they are so much dumber than the kid next to them. If you want that to change, you can’t just sit around and wish it to happen. You have to work to achieve it. If you work hard, you can achieve anything. Pretty soon, you can go from mostly Cs to almost all As. Sports is another example. Let’s say you play basketball. You could be one of the players on the lower scale on the skills chart. Maybe even the worst player (sorry if offensive). Maybe you want to be a better player. If you want to, then you can’t keep on moping around thinking “Oh, I’m so bad at this. I can’t play as good as that guy.” You have to practice harder and work harder to achieve greatness. Another example is gaming, although it isn’t as important, but some take it very seriously. Take Roblox for instance. Maybe you’re a noob at it. Maybe you’re probably terrible at parkour in it, or terrible in combat. Then you’ll start thinking “Uhh, I’m so bad at this game. I can’t believe what a noob I am!” and might end up rage quitting. Don’t! If you think you are so bad, then work harder. Keep on doing obbies until you master them. Keep working on your combat until you are a pro. Pretty soon, you’ll be a pro at all the games. This quote has applied to me once, maybe more than that. I’ll bet that it has also applied to you too, whether you know it or not. For me, I’ve compared myself with other people at school, in elementary school. Me? I’ve thought of myself as kind of the “odd one out.” I mean, I wasn’t bullied or anything, but I felt I didn’t fit in with a lot of people. I thought people thought I was weird, but I was recognized as a person. I just thought I didn’t fit in too well. (FYI: I went to Menlo Park Terrace #19). Then I found out I was going to Iselin Middle instead of Fords. When I went to Middle School, it was kinda, sorta a new start. I worked to fit in a bit more. I’ll keep on trying, because that is kind of my goal, to fit in. Not with popular kids, but with people I enjoy being with. That is how I think the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” applies to me.
The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” means that you should do something about your relationship with someone if you don’t know if they are your friend or not. The first part of the quote which says “If you are constantly wondering where you stand with someone…” , means that you are always thinking about what kind of relationship you have with someone because you are thinking if they are a true friend or if they are just faking to be your friend. The next part of the quote says “maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” , this means that you should stop doing nothing about it and start doing something such as asking if they are your friend if they will have your back and if they care about you. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” is a very powerful and important quote to follow because it shows that you need to know who your friends are and who is not so that you don’t get into fights along the way and just end the relationship earlier before it gets into a bigger problem. This quote can help many get out of trouble quicker and have friends that will help you out when you need it. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” will show many people that if you have a problem with someone maybe you should think about the way they are acting toward you and if you have a strong relationship with them. The quote applied to me when I was at school. A girl was good friends with me the year before, in fifth grade, but once we got to middle school she stopped talking to me and seemed like she didn’t want to do anything with me. When I noticed this I automatically thought “Did I do something wrong? Did I upset her?” I was thinking about this for a long time in sixth grade without saying anything to her. About two months ago I realized I should say something because I wanted to still have the strong, friendly relationship we had in fifth grade. When I finally decide to say something I just started a simple conversation. I asked how her day was going and how she liked middle school, after these simple questions I said that I didn’t see or talk to her that often anymore and she told me that she wasn’t sure if I wanted to talk to her. We became good friends again and still are. This instance connects to this quote because instead of just keeping things the way they were when we weren’t good friends I stopped “standing” or stopped wondering if I did something wrong and started “walking” or started talking. I hope that the quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” can apply to many in their lives so that they could have a strong relationship with people who want to be friends or stop being friends with fake friends that won’t help when it is needed.
ReplyDelete"If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and stop walking." This means that if you wonder if you have a place in someone's friend group, in other words where you stand with him, maybe then you have to start walking to a friend that will have more respect for you. Sometimes if you don’t follow this quote, you can get humiliated by your so called friend, and then you get into a fight that no one likes, This instance sort of applied to me when in fifth grade I had two really good friends. Their names were Manas and Sandarsh. We used to make comics together, talk about life, hang out at Manas's house, play chess, etc. When Manas moved however, me and Sandarsh still were really good friends, and kept in touch with Manas. However, as Sandarsh came into sixth grade, we had different homerooms and classes which meant that we couldn't talk to each other. When I did meet him and try to talk to him, he was instead with Supraj and his group of friends whom I told him about, as he and him were both in the same homeroom, and they both started playing games together. I was seething with anger at hims because I was the reason he became friends with supraj, and now he made a clique with Supraj. Part of me was wishing that I had never introduced the to one another. That didn't mean that him and Manas weren’t friends, because we still called him every week a different times. So, I had a plan. I started walking, then as I was walking, I casually told Manas that Sandarsh had a clique and wasn’t responsive anymore. Kind of harsh, but it sort of worked. Manas told Sandarsh off for having a clique, and then it was like old times, the three of us. We made a hangouts group and called each other to go on hangouts whenever we wanted to talk. We then went on online games, and so forth. Then, I decided to start standing some more, and I became friends, sort of, with Supraj and his group again. This quote can relate to this situation, because when I wasn’t in on the group, I started walking away, and in the end we became friends again. It is important to know when people are on your side or not, otherwise you could get into a spot of trouble. You should also know why people are on your side. Is the reason the followers the person has, or the trends the person set? Is it how much you can get from the person, or is it simply just friendship? You have to look at many factors, and If you get to know you just want to get popularity from the person, you have to start walking, because if you get in a fight with the person down the road, you will regret it because you don’t have the popularity shared with the person anymore, and people will go against you.
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ReplyDelete“ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” This is a very inspiring quote. One reason this quote was inspiring to me is because that it directly correlates with specific scenarios in my life. As you analyze this quote the meaning gets deeper and deeper and deeper. Honestly it was surprising to me how 20 words have so much meaning to them. So now I will analyze it. There are two parts to the quote. The first part is, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” This means that if you keep having to think about the relationship you have with someone. Where you stand means how “far” or how “deep” you are in a relation with someone. The “stages” of friendship are usually stranger, acquaintance, friend, best friend, and so on. The second part of the quote is, “... maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” This part of the quote means that if you're doubtful at your relationship with someone instead of sitting there and waiting for something to magically happen get up and do something. If you don’t get up and face your doubts your whole relationship with that person will collapse. This seems like a very common thing that happens in many relationships. Summing it all up the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” means that if you are doubtful about your relationship with someone you should not wait for it to fix it itself. Instead you should actually do something about your collapsing relationship. Somethings you can do to “fix” your relations are to personally talk to the person, play with the person, or share your feelings with that person.
ReplyDeleteLike I stated before the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” directly corresponds to my life. To not point out any names I will call my friend “S1” standing for “Student 1.” It was a good 4th grade day. It was probably a week after the beginning of the school year. I wanted to make new friends. We had to work together for a project. I was paired up with S1. We worked on the project a lot. I thought I was friends with S1. The project was soon over and we stopped working together. I soon started doubting our friendship. So I started talking to him at recess. Soon me and S1 started sitting with each other at lunch. We soon became “proper” friends. That was the end of my story. If you were wondering, yes, I am still friend with S1. So that is the end of my essay. I hope you enjoyed how my life correlates with the quote, “ If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” Thank you!
The quote, “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking,” really made me think. This quote, to me, means that if you feel like there is an issue between you and your friends, you should do something about it. Rather than waiting for everything to try to fix itself, you should step in and do something about it. If you feel like you and your friends are growing apart, maybe it is for the best or it might be for the worst. Either way, you should go and find out why it happened so that you won’t be sad and wonder for the rest of your life why you guys ever split up in the first place. It made me wonder if I really did stick and if I really did hang out with my friends as much as I should. It truly made me wonder if I consider my “friends” to be my actual friends. The first part of the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” means that if you don’t know what you are with someone, whether it is friend or BFF’s or enemies or even long lost brothers, you should find out. You should do something about the relationship between you and the other person to try to improve it or at least get to know each other. You should fix your relationship and friendship with the other person by getting to know him better. Talking to him and sitting with him and inviting him over to your house are just some of the ways that you can improve the relationship with the person.
ReplyDeleteThis quote also applies to me in many ways. I remember it clearly, it was a beautiful sunny day in the fourth grade, in my school Indiana Avenue. All my friends had the other classes and I was left all alone with a bunch of weird random children and an amazing teacher which still applies to me in GnT, no offense classmates. I could remember being the one who, not to brag, used to be the absolute smartest genius person in the class, I used to ace all my tests and be the first one done. But one day, things changed, some kid in my class, (I’ll call him Mark Zuckerberg), challenged me. I was being cocky and stretching my feet out and he suddenly jumped up and slammed his test on the teacher’s desk, infuriating me. But I liked this kid, he reminded me of myself, annoying, smart, and handsome. Mr. Zuckerberg and I shortly became best friends as we used to compete for the title for the smartest student in Room 28. But he had a different class in 5th grade and we split up not really talking to each other. I missed the idea of having a competitor infuriating me so I talked to him about it and sure enough we became friends again. This quote struck me as I had a connection to it. I remembered going through something like this, and sure enough, walking made things much better!
The quote “If you are constantly wondering where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” is quite an intriguing quote. The way I see it, it means that if you are constantly wondering whether you belong in a group or whether a friend is really your friend and not someone who is just using you to copy homework or get free lunch, then you have to do something about it. To shorten that, sometimes you feel that someone isn’t really your friend. You may question their loyalty to you or their acceptance of you. If that is so, you must do something about it. You have to ask them what they think of you. If you do not think they are not giving a honest answer, it is time to move on. Get some friends that accept you as you are. Not somebody who is only with the “cool kids” and agrees to be friends with you only because you seem to be on trend. These people will betray you as soon as they see someone cooler is in town. In Harry Potter, Peter Pettigrew seems to be loyal to James, Harry’s dad, through and fro. But as soon as Pettigrew realised Lord Voldemort is a bigger bully than James, he betrayed the Potter family and helped Voldemort eliminate Harry’s parents. False friends can do something like that to you and they must be avoided. This quote assists in doing so.
ReplyDeleteOne time when that quote applied to me was in recently this year. I shall refer to this person by the code name Frog. On the first day of sixth grade, I met Frog on the bus. Both of us shared an interest in Pokemon and soon we became friends. One day Frog tickled me for fun and discovered that I cannot stand it. That part is true, I am extremely ticklish and and hate being tickled. Ever since then he started tickling me everyday. I stopped sitting next to him on the bus because of that. I usually sit next to my other friends but they all leave on the stop before mine. Frog just moves to the seat right next to me after they get off. One day, I sat in the very back because Frog usually sits in the front. Frog, however, pushed through the swarm of kids sitting getting off the bus just so he could torture me. I realised that Frog was not really my friend from that day. I asked him and Frog said that he knows that I will not stop being his friend. It seemed like hopeless case so I moved on. I stopped being his friend (though he still doesn’t seem to have noticed).
I was “constantly wondering where I stand with someone,” so I stopped “standing and” started “walking”. This quote is really helpful because it lets you know what to do when we are doubting one’s friendship with us. It is time to stop standing and start walking.
The quote “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” has a lot of meaning. It means that sometimes when you have to see how you compare with someone else, you should probably start improving. When you are comparing yourself with someone, you are probably thinking if you are better than them or worse than them. When you think about that, you probably aren’t confident enough that you are doing well enough. This quote can apply for many circumstances. It can apply for grades, relationships, sports, jobs, etc.
ReplyDeleteI believe that if you stop thinking about where you stand with someone, you will do better because you aren’t having that extra stress of having to think about being better than someone. You shouldn’t be comparing yourself with them in the first place because you don’t even know their goals and their journey. It could be totally different from what YOU are aiming for, so comparing yourself will change your route. Comparing yourself to others also lowers your self-esteem, which makes you less likely to reach your goals.
Another quote that is like this one is:
“Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid.” - Albert Einstein.
This quote shows that you should not compare with others or take negative comments into your mind because they do not KNOW you. They do not know your aims, goals, journey, and path. They do not know what you are going through and they do not know what you are trying to achieve. The only person who should be judging you is yourself, because you are the only one who knows yourself, your goals, and what you have been through the best.
The fish, in Albert Einstein’s quote, is the one receiving negative comments, and is getting influenced by them. At first, he did not seem to care what they were doing and didn’t compare himself. He tried to reach his own goal, but then the haters came and told him negative comments and called him stupid. This made him stop trying to achieve what he wanted to do and, who knows, maybe he could have reached the top of the tree. Albert Einstein looked at a way to explain what people all over the world go through in a simple way. He put it in a simple way, but it still makes an impact in the way it conveys a message.
One example of how both these quotes take effect in real life is when you are trying to achieve something that does not happen a lot. One instance is when a kid wants to start a business. The people around them do not believe they could start a business because he/she is just a “kid,” so the kid is discouraged and doesn’t believe in himself or herself that he/she could achieve starting a business. The kid should have ignored what the people around them are saying. When you compare yourself with others, you could feel discouraged because it might lead you to think that you have flaws because you aren’t as good as them in one thing or another.
This quote has such a powerful message. “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking,” portrays a powerful image on one’s life, and encourages he or she to move forward. No one can live standing in one place. They have to keep moving and make a difference under the relationship. Sometimes it can be difficult to fit in snug and tight in one position and it takes time. But you may not fit everywhere you go.This relates to the image the quote portrays. The first part says, “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” which shows how one connection may not be perfect, and realizing a rocky relationship between you and another person. If you know the person you have a connection with isn’t being cooperative, or the relation just isn’t working out, you have to understand it. Nobody deserves to live under a rock, and you must take action. The second part states, “...maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” This shows that you can’t just stand there and deal with someone who is making this relation not work out. Sometimes it’s ok if a relationship doesn’t work out, but it isn’t ok if you aren’t taking care of the issue and setting it aside. Move on and fix what you need to, and get rid of the things you don’t need. Staying in one place is not going to make the situation any better. Trust me, I have had experience. This one girl was my best friend all throughout Elementary from beginning to end. We met in kindergarten, and were friends up to 5th grade. We would always have fun together, and we both enjoyed being friends with each other, but as middle school came along, we drifted apart. I thought we were still friends, but I wasn’t sure if she really liked me. She would never do anything with me and I did not know if she wanted me to be friends with her anymore, and I let that happen. I stood there wondering what to do, but could never decide. I figured that I needed a new pair of shoes to help me walk along. I faced her and we started a normal conversation. As we talked, I realized that I needed to open up to her about how I felt, and I asked her to do the same. She told me how middle school was really different, and how she had a lot more going on, and that she still wanted to be my friend, but was afraid to open up. I gave her some space until she had the time, and now we are best friends yet again. This shows how walking can make a big difference. Maybe if I hadn’t opened up to her about everything, we wouldn’t be friends today. This experience expresses the meaning of the quote, and the feeling associated with it.
ReplyDeleteThis quote really means a lot. “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” We, as humans are always comparing ourselves to others. Sometimes we do it, or our mothers. If John is smart, you are dumb! Alex is a fast runner, then what am I next to him? This is basically the worst thing you can do. Just stop comparing! Many times I get fed up with my sister telling me that she is nothing compared to Mishri, Mishri is so smart, and I just am not. If you really believe that you are not as great as someone else, stop thinking that way, and get to work. Start working hard to surpass that person. You stand below a very athletic person, than you have to start “walking” and training hardly and smartly to become better than him/her.
ReplyDeleteIn life, I have been comparing myself, and trying to figure out where I stand in front of my friends. “I am five times better than Jiya, and Lori is ten times better than me.” While comparing, I never thought about trying to beat them, just because they are my friends. If I really disliked someone, and they were better than me, I’d do anything to be better than them. At times, I will try to be better than someone I emulate, such as my father. I never have thought about rivaling my friends. I always thought that I will stay the same, and can not surpass them. That was not until I learned about our Growth Mindset.
If we have a growth mindset, we can achieve any goal we want.We also look for challenges. When we start to “walk” beside the person, we look up for a challenge, to improve in ________. While we have a fixed mindset, we don’t want challenges, and we always think that we can not improve in a certain subject or area. Have you ever thought about what your mindset is? Take this quiz, and you’ll find out.https://mindsetonline.com/testyourmindset/step1.php. If you really answer with what you think is right, you can improve. Having a Fixed Mindset shouldn’t upset you, but it should encourage you to work smarter and harder to have a growth mindset.
Should you really be comparing yourself with others? Well, I think that you can, and sometimes you should. If you take it the right way, you will try to improve on what you are OK on.If you always compare your ability and skill to others, nor should you compare others with yourself or someone else. My family doesn’t always compare me with others, because they know what my capability is, and they do not know what their capability might be. It is simple to decide where you stand next to someone, but is it really that easy to walk up, and surpass them? I personally am inspired by this quote, and I’ll always try harder to walk with the person, or ahead of them.
"If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking." Once I read this quote, I knew that everyone in this world should read or listen to this quote because to me, this quote means that if you wonder about where your relationship is with someone, stop wondering and start discovering. It usually seems like you know where you are at your relationship with someone whether the relationship is as a friend, girlfriend, or boyfriend. But, the truth is that once you start thinking about it, you are basically lost, and you need to find a way to get back to the path that will never separate your relationship apart. These relationships does not only have to deal with human beings, it can deal with challenges, goals, fears, and much more. These relationships should not make you compare yourself with others. Once I read this quote, I was inspired to find who I truly am underneath all the heaps of craziness in my life. I should start thinking about who I am as a person and how far apart I am in all my relationships. To me, this experience expresses the meaning of the quote, and the feelings associated with it. I like how this quote can mean different things to different people, but this quote still moves people and makes people make efforts into making their life a better place. These relationships may make you have a fixed mindset, but you should not be upset, but you should encourage yourself to work harder and smarter to having a growing mindset, and a growth in your mindset. As I said, this quote can help people in many different circumstances. Another way of stating this quote is, "If you wonder about where you are in life, stop standing there and do nothing, but start running and discover who you are." For example, in my life, I do not know where I am with my old friends in elementary school since I can not contact them in any way, but I will try really hard to become very good friends again. I feel like for everyone, that you the relationship is between you and the world. So, if you are constantly wondering about why you are on this earth, you should do something better, incredible, anything to improve life on earth for everyone. Instead of sitting at home in front of you television watching different channels. God sent you here to this earth for a good reason. Maybe to: make life on earth better, help those in need, learn how to be patient and understanding, be disciplined, learn how to work together, change the world, make efforts, and so much more.This quote can help many get out of trouble quicker and have friends that will help you out when you need it. The quote “If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking” will show many people that if you have a problem with someone maybe you should think about the way they are acting toward you and if you have a strong relationship with them. Overall, this quote can help shape our lives.
ReplyDeleteThis quote is something everyone should remember in life. Don’t make yourself fit in a place that is not even right for you. I don’t think you ever have to act like someone you aren’t. All of us have our own place to just be us. So if you are in a situation where you cannot act like yourself maybe it’s just time to move on. If they want to be with you, they will accept who you are.
ReplyDeleteI remember a time in preschool when I learned to walk away. I have always been a quiet and conserved person who becomes talkative once I’m close to them. I had a friend who tried to change the way I acted. Instead of being the quiet person I was, she forced me to be someone I wasn’t. She made me talk to people I didn’t know and it made me uncomfortable. She asked me to change who I was and I wasn’t ready for that. I didn’t need her telling me what to do. I was happy and confident with who I was. I didn’t need a person who would bring my self-esteem down and not be confident or believe in myself. So at the end I decided to end the friendship. I wasn’t going to stick around a person who didn’t make me feel good. I learned that sometimes there are going to be people who want to change and control you, but those are not the people you want to be surrounded with. Sometimes the right thing to do is just walk away. You should never feel the need to compare yourself with the people around you. You are who you are and you can’t change that and everyone should be proud of who they are. Don’t bring yourself down by thinking about what others think of you. Be your own true self and everyone will like you.
In the Divergent series you can see the main character, Tris, standing up for what she wants. All her life her parents have taught her to be a selfless person because her family is part of the Abnegation fraction. When it comes time for Tris to chose how she wants to live the rest of her life, she chooses to become part of the Dauntless and be brave and outgoing. Though she grew up in the Abnegation fraction, she felt like an outsider. Being selfless did not come to her naturally like how it did for her friends and family. Because of this she “walked” to Dauntless so she could be herself. By joining Dauntless, Tris had a fresh beginning where she could experience and do the things she dreamed of. Tris stood up for herself and left the people who she did not fit in with all her life.
Through personal experience and the books I have read, humans tend to change themselves for others around them. However, once they find who they are, nothing and no one can stop them from being their own self.
The quote “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” is pretty confusing to be frank. But, once I thought about it real hard, I started to understand. This quote is mainly about you and your friends. How your friends act with you, and if you should be with them or not. It also has to do with any other relationship you are in. This quote really inspires me and tells me to discover. This is because you do not know what you are in for.
ReplyDeleteWhen it says “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone…” in the first part, I think it means that you constantly have to question yourself if someone is your true friend or not in a relationship. This is because sometimes, not all the time, someone could just pretend to be your friend. They do this to not hurt your feeling. That part is really important because it leads you right into the next part of the quote.
The next part is “… maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking.” If you think that someone is not your friend, you shouldn’t just remain silent… do something. Ask the person questions. You should at least know what happened that made you and your friend split. Like I said before, people sometimes fake your friendship so that you don’t feel hurt. Well, it hurts more when you find out that they are not your true friend that could care for you at any moment. So, you should do something. I know it sounds weird but just listen. You should go out to you ex- friend and discover their inner thoughts. Just explore. Question them as much as you want. You don’t want to feel even more depressed than before. If you feel awkward talking to that person because he or she spreads rumors about you, and is making you feel guilty then ask someone else to help you. A teacher, a parent, or even a real friend could help. Real friends would be with you at any time, and especially at a rough one. They could help you. Don’t hide your feelings. It will make you feel even worse. Nobody wants that to happen.
After understanding this quote thoroughly, I found out that this quote has been associated with me before. This instance happened quite recently. Moreover, this one tells me to continue following the quote… and after this, you should too. Sit back, relax, grab a box of popcorn, and get ready to listen to this story. Just remember, I’m not naming any names. It all started in Pre-School. She was my first childhood friend. We used to play, laugh, eat together, and anything-best friends would do with each other. We were practically sisters from another mother. We were best friends until last summer. Something unusual had happened. She wouldn’t talk, text, or even come to my house. I was upset. I did not know what had happened. Did I say something? Did I do something? All I wanted to find out if I was the one to break the relationship. And if she was the one, I wanted to know why. But then I realized that she was in the same class as me in 6th grade. I finally had the courage to talk to her while doing a project. I started with “Hi” and then my daily catch phrase, “How’s life?” We started a neat conversation. After that, we turned into friends again. We weren’t best friends… we just stayed friends. I was just happy that my friend and I got back together. The same thing will happen to you if you open your mouth and think of this quote.
“If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking” After staring into space and asking people about this quote, I finally understood what it meant. I soon realized that I have experienced some of these problems on my own. I have experienced many instances in which this quote applies to. They have occurred to me in dance, school, and in track. I like this quote because it shows that if you have to keep trying to impress someone or if they are putting you down, then they are not your friends. Those kind of people are not worth your friendship and your valuable time. This quote is telling us that you don’t have to change the way you act or behave in front of someone just because they don’t approve of it. You should be yourself and act your own way freely without someone intimidating you to stop. I have experienced this matter before. When I was in dance class, a few years ago, we had a girl who was so good in our class. She would always get compliments from the teachers and cold do all sorts of splits and leaps. The teacher would always compare us to how good she was and we would feel bad about ourselves. So then one day during practice, I decided to be her friend thinking that she would help me get better and we would be stay friends. I went up to her during our water break and asked her if she wanted to be my friend. She agreed after a few minutes of consulting with herself. I was really happy, and thought that I finally had a chance of getting better thanks to the help of my new friend. After class I went to her house and we had fun. We had practiced dancing and choreographing our own type of dance. Though when we were choreographing we had some fun, she always made herself always in the front and me as a backup dancer. I did not really care, but sometimes when I asked if we could both be in the front, she was really mean and was really sassy. She had said only the good dancer could be in the front and that I wasn’t nearly good enough for it. After that I never spoke to her unless she asked me something or made me back her up. I felt like I always had to impress her when doing things and I was never as good as she wanted me to. I was a little bit sad because she would make me change the way I dance to a completely different style. A style that I didn’t always understand. I always thought that maybe she wasn’t really my friend and was just pretending. After a while I stopped being friends with her and made new friends who were nicer and cared about me. We stayed friends ever since and were still going to each other’s house and hang out every weekend. This are the type of friends you should have. Not the ones in where they judge you and you have to constantly think about changing the way you act for them. This is what I believe this quote means. In dance class was one of the instances where I had experienced this quote. I think we all learned so many things from this and many of the future quotes but I truly think this was the one that applied to me in my life.
ReplyDeleteThis quote has a very thorough meaning to it. After reading this quote, I found out that it applied to me the most this year! I used to wonder where I stood against my friends and I soon found out, which ones were my true friends and which ones I had to end my friendship with. I found out which ones were the people who cared about me, the ones I could start walking with and the ones I could leave behind. This quote demonstrates a lot of meaning to it and if you understand the full meaning of it. I definitely know where I stand next to in my friend list and who I can walk with. Sure, some friends aren’t as important as others but I know I can trust all of them. At the beginning of the year, I had friends who I thought were very nice and people I could trust, but as the year passed, I wondered where I stood against my “friends,” and even though it was hard for me, I had to break a few friendships, stop standing, and start walking. There are also a few instances where this quote reminds me of good steps I took in my friendships. Last year, I had a friend who I used to hang out a lot with and we used to do a lot things together but this year, he never came up to me and we didn’t get together to hang out for a long time. I thought, where I stand next to him, so I decided to start walking. One day, I went up to him and naturally, the words came out of my mouth and he made me smile and laugh. I noticed at that point that many of my friends from the past years had moved on and I had to take a step and take action. This quote is really trying to say that you have to understand that others may have moved on and you may not have even noticed, so you’re the one who will have to take the steps to start moving forward and start walking. Sometimes, you may have to leave people behind for you to move ahead. You should realize where you are in the race and know when n to move ahead by yourself. It makes you realize that who your real friends are, the ones who will have your back, who will cry when your crying, who will stand up for you when you are alone. It may hurt to find out who your fake friends are but that’s the time when you start walking instead of standing. That’s when you know it’s time to move on. When the time is right, it will automatically come to you when it’s time to start walking and moving and stop staying in one place. Even though it may be difficult to move on and leave some things behind, it’s all going to be for the better!
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ReplyDelete“If you're constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it's time to stop standing and start walking.” The first thing that popped in mind to me when I read this quote was about friendship. To me this quote means that you shouldn’t always be trying to juggle friendships with someone. If you don’t know where you are in your relationship with someone then you probably aren’t very good friends with that person.
The first part of this quote is mainly talking about knowing where you are in the social status of someone. Weather you are an acquaintance, a half friend, a fake friend, just friends, or BFF’s you should know where you are with a friend. If you don’t know where you stand with a “friend” then that means that either 1) you have never brought it up, 2) you don’t time with each other and haven’t really reached the point where you are true friends who can have fun and share personal things to each other, 3) someone in the relationship is trying to make it work when really you know that the other person (or you) doesn’t really care about it, 4) one person is just trying to be kind to the other (but not friends.) I know these categories well because many of the friendships I have had fit into these. Being in these categories aren’t good things and either you start walking your way up to being true friends and knowing where you are as friend OR you should walk right out of their lives because friendship takes dedication and if you don’t even KNOW where you are in YOUR relationship 9 part 2 of the quote) , then you probably should reconsider your friendship and dedication to one another.
In life you will have many types of people. Enemies, acquaintances, friends, and many more. The most important to me is friendship. A TRUE friend (emphasis on the true) is someone who you can share your deepest thoughts and secrets to ; someone who will sit with you when you are lonely or hurt instead of being with others; a true friend will share some of their lunch with you when you accidentally forget yours at home. This is how I recognize true friends from fake ones. I have had many incidents with fake friends. In school I like to be very social around other people and students and like to make friends. Unfortunately only SOME of them were/are real.
One incident I’ve had with fake friends is with one girl who I used to be good friends. She was in my homeroom and I didn’t know many people in my homeroom. One day she asked to sit with me at lunch and I said okay. Many people had warned me that she can sometimes be annoying but I didn't listen to them. Pretty soon we were good friends but she would always do small things that would annoy me. Sometimes my hair gets messy and she would always correct me and say “Jiselle you should fix your hair it doesn’t look good.” Eventually these small kept pulling on until I couldn’t take it anymore. Whenever she would say something that annoyed me I would find something that small that would annoy her just to get her to stop. One day one of my friends overheard the girl talking to someone and saying rude things about me. I still try to be nice to her every now and then but now I know for sure that she is and was a fake friend and was just “hanging out” with me to be friends with MY OTHER friends.
All together this quote try's to say that if you find yourself dealing with a fake friend or someone who doesn't care about your friendship, then you shouldn't be friends with that person anymore because they aren't worth your time and effort.
To me, I think the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” means that you have to stop comparing yourself with others. There are some people who are always thinking, “I’m so much dumber than this person” or “I’m so much more awesome than that kid.” To be honest, no one will really care about that on your deathbed or at your funeral. They’re not going to say something like, “This person was a whole lot better than my boss.” How you think you are compared to other people won’t matter in life. Most of the time, you won’t be judged by how popular you were in school or work, but by how well you did in school or how hard you worked. If you still think that where you stand with someone is important, than you should at least work to get even with that person if he/she is better than you.
ReplyDeleteThere are situations where your ranking with someone else matters. Like in school, not with popularity but how hardworking you are. Smarts also helps too. Most likely, most people think that they are so much dumber than the kid next to them. If you want that to change, you can’t just sit around and wish it to happen. You have to work to achieve it. If you work hard, you can achieve anything. Pretty soon, you can go from mostly Cs to almost all As. Sports is another example. Let’s say you play basketball. You could be one of the players on the lower scale on the skills chart. Maybe even the worst player (sorry if offensive). Maybe you want to be a better player. If you want to, then you can’t keep on moping around thinking “Oh, I’m so bad at this. I can’t play as good as that guy.” You have to practice harder and work harder to achieve greatness. Another example is gaming, although it isn’t as important, but some take it very seriously. Take Roblox for instance. Maybe you’re a noob at it. Maybe you’re probably terrible at parkour in it, or terrible in combat. Then you’ll start thinking “Uhh, I’m so bad at this game. I can’t believe what a noob I am!” and might end up rage quitting. Don’t! If you think you are so bad, then work harder. Keep on doing obbies until you master them. Keep working on your combat until you are a pro. Pretty soon, you’ll be a pro at all the games.
This quote has applied to me once, maybe more than that. I’ll bet that it has also applied to you too, whether you know it or not. For me, I’ve compared myself with other people at school, in elementary school. Me? I’ve thought of myself as kind of the “odd one out.” I mean, I wasn’t bullied or anything, but I felt I didn’t fit in with a lot of people. I thought people thought I was weird, but I was recognized as a person. I just thought I didn’t fit in too well. (FYI: I went to Menlo Park Terrace #19). Then I found out I was going to Iselin Middle instead of Fords. When I went to Middle School, it was kinda, sorta a new start. I worked to fit in a bit more. I’ll keep on trying, because that is kind of my goal, to fit in. Not with popular kids, but with people I enjoy being with. That is how I think the quote, “If you’re constantly having to wonder where you stand with someone, maybe it’s time to stop standing and start walking,” applies to me.
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