Expository Essay- How Seeing Situations Through Other People’s Eyes is Important
Paisley, a freshman in high school, starts chatting with her friend at the corner of the crowded school hallway. She makes fun of her friend’s “too little girly” shirt as a joke, but that is not the way Kyndal [the friend] saw it. Once the conversation was over, Kyndal weaved her way through people to her locker, grabbed one of her extra shirts, and sprinted to the bathroom and changed shirts. She was majorly embarrassed and wished Paisley knew how that made her feel. Like Kyndal’s situation, it is important to see situations through other people’s eyes. It is important to see situations through other people’s eyes because another person does not know what the other person has been through, and it may hurt someone’s feelings.
Looking at situations through someone else’s point of view is important for people because the person does not know what all the other person has been through. For example, Tally, is arguing with her mom over if she should be able to go to the baseball game tonight, even though she is flunking her French class. Her mom says no in a no-means-no tone because she is upset with Tally’s grades and wants her to pass instead of going to watch her boyfriend at the baseball game. Like Tally, people often do and say things that do not need to be said unless you know how the other person will feel. In addition, a typical, no-care-in-the-world teenage boy shows up to class with an empty hand that should be holding his homework that is done perfectly. Mrs.Parker, his math teacher, was a tad upset with him because he had not done his homework, so she raised her voice and told him that he should have done it. The mad, angry, upset teenager with a red face of anger does the same thing back at his caring teacher. Like this teenagers situation, we normally do not care about looking through other people’s eyes, and we do not even know what they have been through, or if they care. It is super important to look at situations through other people’s eyes because we do not know what all has happened to them.
Another reason to look through another person’s eyes is because it is possible to hurt someone else’s feelings. For example, if a, again, no-care-in-the-world teenage boy says something hateful about a young, crazy-about-what-everyone-thinks girl, it could offend her. The careless boy did not look at it the way the girl did, and it ended up hurting the girl’s feelings. In addition, it is possible to hurt a person’s, self-confidence if we don’t look at it through their viewpoint. To illustrate, a young woman with body issues went to the beach with all of the tanned, toned, perfect bodies. She looks over at the rolling waves and sees two other young girls whispering and laughing at her. Now because she was made fun of, she never gets to enjoy the salty air, blowing breeze, or the exciting summer sun because other girls did not look at the situation through her eyes. Therefore, it is unknowingly important to see through another citizen’s eyes.
In conclusion, either a friend to friend talk, or a mom and daughter situation, seeing what we say and do in someone else’s eyes is vital because we do not always know what other people have been through, and it could hurt their feelings.