Double Pet Peeve

One of my biggest pet peeves in life is when people completely change who they are to impress someone. It is one thing to allow someone to make you a better person, but to change yourself entirely so you can continue being with someone is out of control. It's not fair to yourself nor is it fair to the other person. It's exhausting living a life pretending to be someone you aren't. Eventually you will get tired of it and won't be able to keep on the mask, and then the other person is going to be completely taken aback when you do a complete 180 from who you were the day before. You are misleading them entirely. I don't understand why people can't just be themselves. It's like junior high and high school all over again. Pretending to be someone to fit in with a certain crowd. We are in our mid twenties. It's time to grow up.


Another pet peeve of mine is people who complain about things that are in their control. For example, people who complain all the time about being tired but they don't come home until two or three in the morning knowing they have to be up and around by seven. If you're tired there is an easy solution, go to bed earlier. Get the rest you know you need. Another example would be people who complain about how they are stressed out because they "can't" balance their time between friends. Actually, there is a real simple solution, especially once you realize that there is a problem. Make time for everyone. Yes that probably means time will have to be sacrificed from your other group of friends, but if you don't want to do that quit complaining about being stressed over it because you are doing it to yourself. No one else has control over that. It's like I said before, we are in our mid twenties. It's time to take some responsibility and quit acting like we have zero control over anything.