Blonde hair, blue eyes, thin, thin and beautiful. Life should be easy for anyone who fits this description based on what we learn from society. Society brainwashes us by telling us how we should look to make it in the world. Often people fall under the pressure of society and transform. So I wonder: what about people who start out accepted and then fail to meet society's standards? To get some insight into this concept, I interviewed Leena Smith, a family friend of over 6 years. Leena fits every description of society's ideal woman. I decided to interview Leena about her life as a social image and her career. To my surprise, I didn't get the answers I was looking for. Leena had grown up in a lower class family. Her father left the family when she was young and her mother worked as a janitor at a local school in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia. When Leena started working when she was fifteen. She got her first job as a waitress at the local Waffle House. This whole time I thought Leena's looks would get her noticed by a modeling rep or make everyone want to hire her. But it wasn't like that. She said employers always assumed she was a rich kid trying to make jokes about getting a job. They didn't know that his decent-looking clothes came from a thrift store and that he lived in a dilapidated trailer with his mother. Leena says some of the best years of her life were spent working at the Waffle House restaurant. Someone gave her the first chance to work there. There she met her husband. He also worked pretty hard to help her through some of her college experience. Leena is now a nurse and enjoys living the life that society didn't plan for her. How do you make it in the soc...... middle of paper ...... they understood that in their society they had to ““love your neighbor as yourself”” (Phillips 7). Being kind can be a lifestyle or something we do because everyone else is doing it. Confusing yourself with the world today is not easy. There are habits that people are expected to act on and rules that are established to follow. Enrenreich, King, Hallie, and Phillips each ask us to question the social scripts and rules of society. We learn to understand whether or not jobs just make us seem worthless and make it harder for us to make it in low-paying jobs. Let's start by determining whether judging a person by their skin color seems more acceptable. Understanding why people would go against the law of their town and help aliens makes us wonder what kind of place these people create. We decide whether being kind becomes something we learn or whether it is the root of how we function as people.