#7 Counterfactual Identity

What did you try to do?

In this day and age where a lot of us are really slowly embracing a comfortable indulgence in our mobile tech devices and personal computers, I wanted to show that being active and exercising can be a really fun lifestyle that we all should incorporate.

I’ll be honest, a lot of people just passed me and didn’t pay any mind as I was jump roping and doing my usual routine of practicing transitions. I got the name Kevin, James, Alex, and even my own actual name, Andrew (haha). A lot of people assumed I was a school athlete and thought I was a kinesiology major. Everyone came off very friendly and weren’t really turned off about me doing my business. At the end of the day, I was just another student to them.

In conclusion, a lot of us can only draw so many things from a person at first glance until we actually get to know them. We generalize things and go off stereotypes to give us an idea, because they are usually the easiest things to do. For example, just looking at my physical appearance you would consider me athletic and very active. From the looks of it, I like to jump rope as a hobby, and I probably have a lot of free time considering that I just chose a random spot near commencement lawn to jump rope; there was not a single backpack or educational material on my end. I thought it was a very profound and interesting experiment.