Remarkable

"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable" quoted by William Shakespeare.  How many of us in our modern day society feel the need to be remarkable? Feel the common need to excel in everything that we do? Weither its our studies or who's the most popular girl in the school. Has anyone ever noticed how much in our school lives that we compete with everyone around us, weither its our best friends, teachers, or even an acquaintance? Though why do we do it in the first place, why must we feel that constant need of being remarkable? To please someone? And if so who? William Shakespeare wrote this approximately 400 years ago, yet it fits into our lives like a missing jigsaw piece. Though if we become remarkable what would happen?

To me personally I believe that at least once in our lives everyone has that impossible wish to be remarkable. Though its not all its cracked up to be. When I was in primary I didn't have many friends and wished to be remarkable so I could be popular. You know when they say be carful what you wish for? That was one of those times. I made a lot of friends and became popular and got really good grades, then the people in my friendship group began to talk about me. Thus after that I basically became mute, as I lost all my confidence to talk infront of people. I then got out of the group and roamed for other friendship groups to join some rejected me and that hurt, though I eventually found the friendship group im in today. Even though I found a good friendship group, I cant help but think how much better I would be if i didn't wish to be remarkable. I love the friends I have now, though I cant help but think the confidence that I once had I wont ever be able to get back.

Being Remarkable is different depending on who you are, and remarkable means different things to different people. To me I thought being remarkable was someone who had everything. Someone who was happy with no worries about anything, with heaps of friends. Though I can guarantee my opinion of what remarkable really is, is different from everybody. My explanation is going to be different to the old man who lives on your street, who passes you everyday as he walks his dog, or maybe the celebrities and trend setters like Lady Gaga. Though even though the explanations of what remarkable is for us may be different to someone else, where all right.