Performance in Everyday Life

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The life we live is a performance for all to see, with roles that we create for ourselves and are sometimes roles given for us to “play”. Viewing life as a performance makes me understand how much of an impact the demands of each “role” has on me as a person. I have both created and been handed various roles to play on a daily basis. I am a daughter, a college student, a friend, and an employee. Each role having their own demands and rules that at times cannot be merged into another. For instance at work, I play the professional role, my speech is polished and appropriate (NO CURSE WORDS), my time is valuable to finish the tasks of the day, I present myself in a respectful manner, and I am surrounded by older, more experienced peers. However, this type of role would not work quite well in my role as a friend. Among my friends, we are free spirited, we say what we want and exactly how we want it (we have what they call sailor mouths), we wear what we desire and don’t conform to the normal, and our time is certainly endless. As a student, I play the most focused role, this is role in which I listen more than I speak, and the scenario of a classroom creates a tense environment due to the competition subconsciously created amongst the rest of the students in this “performance”. Now in considering my role as a daughter, I present myself as good-doer, my speech is respectful, I dress in a manner that I know my mother would accept (meaning no short shorts or too much cleavage showing), and I also speak in Spanish, which is not what I would do in say my work environment, class environment, and rarely in my social environment. These roles each cause me to change the manner in which I speak, the form in which I act, and the state in which I think. My free, child mentality I have among my friends can’t be expressed while I am around coworkers or in a classroom. My strict,
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