Prompt: Reflect on a time when you or someone you know had to choose between fitting in and staying true to their identity; what was gained or lost in that experience?

 A time that I had too choose between fitting In and staying true to my identity would have been when my friends would talk about certain stuff and attire they wanted to become popular and know but in this way they had too  change everything about themselves and even their beliefs so that they would appear  more "cool" and pleasant to others they had thought that this would make others like them more and become more close to others but in all of this they made me choose between them or my own truth I didn't know what to do I really wanted to keep my friends but I wouldn't give up in what I believed and  my thoughts just to be different I didn't want to give up God for something worldly, something that was temporary I decided that I would stay true to myself and part ways I lost my friends and the "popularity" but I gained other better people that actually saw me for me as a friend and didn't want me or need me to change myself to be better. Today in class we had a group project to do and had to pick our roles, Today I learned about how to work together and make nice friends with new people.