my writing prompt.

for english, we had to write writing prompts for the state testing. here's my rough draft:

Alfred was an Odd Rabbit. he was a rare black rabbit in a sea of brown. this made him different and unique to his parents, who quickly got over the fact that their son was not brown. He didn't have many friends because the other bunnies at his school had been taught that colour variations would result in being eaten.

this upset alfred, so one day, he went to the great, huge mud pit after a rain, and dove in, covering himself with brown, and laid himself in the sun to dry.

Alfred baked, and baked, and baked, until finally the mud was all dry. it was when he tried to move that he had seen error in his plan: he had so heavily coated himself with mud that he couldn't move! the sun had dried him into the shape he had laid down in, and he was stuck. he cried, and eventually, another rabbit showed up, wondering who was crying. seeing nothing but alfred, covered in mud. The other rabbit assumed he was a lawn ornament and left.

Alfred's attempt to fit in resulted in his death, and many teenagers face simmilar fates. At my school, many people feel like alfred, the black rabbit in a sea of brown. However,many more are happy to be the brown rabbit.

it's when the black rabbit tries to be brown that issues arise. You see, many of the brown bunnies do dangerous things, not to say that the black rabbits don't too. Kids do stupid things, but when someone does it to fit in, then a dangerous situation is beginning. Who knows where that person will go from there? if that person is mindless enough, will they jump off the cliff because everyone else is doing it? there are simply times when better judgement should come into play, and too many people forget that.

The way everything is commercialized these days, you can be anything, any day of the week, all you have to do is buy it. there is an issue here too, because the kids who just want to look cool and are doing things for fashion are causing themselves unnecessary pain. THey might be made fun of, they might get people to hang out with, although I don't believe anyone you meet on basis of fashion can be truly considered a friend, they might sit alone at the lunch table or worse. but this can all be remedied with a simple change of clothes, from black and white to technicolor. Everything changes, you become invisible to the hunters, and nobody cares anymore.

Alfred's issue with difference was because he can't change the colour of his fur, but what about the people who are physically disfigured? They may have brain damage, be in wheel chairs, Deaf, Dumb, or Blind. I'm certain many of these people long to be able bodied, so they might live what we call normal lives.

I feel the prompt's question was unfair, "is ir more important to fit in, or to be unique". in trying to be unique, people join a large group of nonconformists. all of these people conforming to be different, singular in the small scale ( 1 in 100, perhaps), but greater in the big picture (1.2 percent of americans claim to belong to a new age religion). if I had population statistics, I could tell you that 1.2 is a large number of people, but I don't. I think that we all need to accept that we are all human, and treat eachother that way.