Social Norm Examples

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When trying to figure out what kind of social norm I wanted to break I didn’t want to do something so out of the box. I had heard all the stories of the really elaborate ways to go out of the social norm. I researched thing to do that were a little more in my comfort range and couldn’t really find anything to do, until I was sitting in the hospital waiting room, because my sister in law was in labor. I saw this old woman sitting there, and it’s really unusual to go strike up a conversation with some random stranger but that is exactly what I did. It was not easy for me to do this because I am so shy. It started when I had just gotten to the hospital I had some food because I had just came from class. I was sitting there and had noticed that…show more content…
Two of her boys went to war, while two of them stayed home and her three daughters had gone off and married. She had told me that her only child that had stayed around the area was her youngest who is now bringing her a grandson. She was so pleased that she had someone to stay around because her husband had died two months ago and she said this was the first time she had been out since then. When she told me this she looked right at me and about broke down. She said that me coming up and talking to her was one of the nicest things she has seen someone my age do in a long time. I know that going out of your comfort zone, or social norm, can be a good thing sometimes, and could even make someone’s…show more content…
When I had first walked over there my mom and dad were in the room with my brother and sister in law, and there were two other families in the waiting room. At first the other families gave me a death stare, not sure why it’s not like they knew her. After a little while, they started listening to our conversation then one of the other soon to be grandmas started to chime in. It was weird to see how when one person starts to open up and take a chance by talking to a total stranger how that could affect others, and how coming out of my own shell could help other people like me to come out of their own
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