At OHS, students every day seem pressured to develop and conform to self-imposed and imposed standards. However, the relationship between the standards extends to a larger issue.
Students’ relationships with self-imposed standards are influenced by the standards forced on them in clubs, sports, and classes.
When students participate in curricular and extracurricular activities–academics, sports and clubs; students are forced to meet the expectations inflicted by the activities. Furthermore, students proceed to center themselves around the expectation of generalized standards to develop their characters instead of referring to themselves.
Students’ relationship relationship with expected-standards extends to self-imposed standards. Students conform to the standards society enforces. Moreover, students look to exceed the expectations of the imposed standards to perfect their character.
Students should refer to themselves to develop their character by analyzing their actions, beliefs and passions while maintaining a relationship with the imposed standards of their worth.
In other words, we–as students–can imitate and conform to expectations from ourselves and others, but these reflections are not who we are and don’t define us. We all have our own unique personalities.
This editorial was originally published in the January Print Edition.
