Conformity In My Life

I meet strangers everyday, and they affect my life in miraculous ways. The quote from The Five People You Meet In Heaven, “ ‘ Strangers,’ the Blue Man said, ‘ are just family you have yet to come to know.’” , explains that those who I meet, like random strangers in the street, can change my life in such dramatic ways (pg. 40). The Blue Man, Joseph Corvelszchik, said this because of all the people, complete strangers, that have affected his life, and how the people at Ruby Pier, at one time strangers, became his very strange family and accepted his differences. One of the ways that my life can be changed are from examples of all the moves to different schools. I have had to meet strangers every year that I moved, and they change my life because I learn so many different views and opinions, because of all the different strangers who have become like family to …show more content…
Being an open-minded person causes me to find those who I may never meet, and those, like the first reason, change my life so much. A third reason the quote applies to other people when dealing with me as a new kid. Everyone that I meet and become close friends with experiences the same thing I experience, the feeling that the stranger met is going to be someone so important, and can change vastly. My final reason about why this applies to me is that with every move that I’ve had, I’ve only had my parents as my support system, the only people I know in the new place, and meeting new people, even if they are the biggest nerd or the toughest jock, and turning them from a stranger to a friend is something that always makes the move better. Just knowing that in a completely different country, I have at least one friend I can turn to and get comfortable around is so important to me, as a veteran