Week Nine

I have a best friend who is constantly surprising me. She from the outside looks just like the typically smart senior, she is very private, she gets good grades, she's one of my more "sane" friends, and from the outside she looks normal. The thing is, she's not. When you get her going, she can't stop talking, she is one of the funniest people I know, and when she wants to let her guard down she can opens up in ways only a true friend could.
The point I'm trying to make, is that people are always surprising other people. This same friend once told me that: "you have to think of the other person as emotionally complicated as you are." She was right of course, like always. You cannot as a person to another person, judge. Well of course, you can, but when you do you cheat yourself of the opportunity to truly get to know someone else when you pass judgement.
Literature, is constantly proving this. In book after book, and story after story, characters are constantly breaking the mold. This happens in Antigone because Antigone is a woman, or in The Book Thief, where Leisel breaks the mold because she is German. In literature the author puts characters in situations to prove the reader wrong. People should take this into account for everyday life as well, and realize that a person is full of many suprises.