Reading “Enemies” really made me think about how self conscious is a deep concept. Like, it really takes one person or one moment in ones life to change their views on the world. Especially, there’s so many people that want you to see what they see and take away that light in your eyes. Its not only the way people see things but also emotion. Like peer pressure and how people are not certain of somethings because they know it’s bad but part of them is like how can I refuse. Thats where “The Influence You Have” comes along. They talked about how good people do bad things because they are influenced. All these concepts have to do with people trying to change who you are. In the podcast for instance, when people where put into an experiment where they would test people and toucher them torture them if they gave the wrong response. This really makes the person who is torturing them rethink or re-evaluate his morals they know that they’re doing the wrong thing under the pressure they feel like this is the right thing to do even if this is not what they would like to do. The is similar to in the podcast where there was experiments on people when asked for money. People would feel pressured or put on the spot to give money because they are put in a position where it is hard to say no.

Just like In these experiments that showed how people influence others, there was a time I was impacted by others as well, which was when I was in the sixth grade and I came to school with a new hair-do. I had gotten my hair done with braids that I already disliked but followed through with because there was nothing I could do. I just thugged it out until it was time to remove them. In one of my classes during the time, I noticed a group of girls talking and laughing and then I hear one of them give a dare to tell somebody something. Next thing I know, that girl is in my ear trying tell me something but she’s struggling through the laugh. When she tells me this, I did not internalize it at first but I realized they were talking about my hair. I didn’t really feel bad about the fact of my hair because it was like tell me something I don’t know. What made me feel bad was that they love talking to me like we friends but little did I know they love to gossip. This has really impacted me because now I don’t let myself get too close to people because people can be weird. This was not a moment where I was between making decision but it did make me reevaluate what I thought I knew.