Does this paragraph use reason?
Aristotle's qualities of friendship and family can be summed up into having a social life. In eighth grade, I was judgmental to everyone in my grade causing me to have high standards for friends. Because of this I only conversed with the few friends I could trust, speaking to everyone else as minimal as possible. I also refused to go to most of the parties I was invited to. I brought this judgmental behavior to high school where, because of this, I would have to make new friends. The few classmates from junior high that went to the same high school as me, got the impression that I did not like them for no reason whatsoever because I never said hi to them in the halls and did not want to be apart of their clique. It wasn't in my favor to keep up this anti-social behavior and I soon found myself miserable because of it. I have been expressing negativity to others and it has also been reflected on my grades. Once I started speaking up and volunteering more, I finally realized that I can actually by happy by being positive and sociable. We human beings were created to be social creatures. If not, then we would be just like animals, communicating through our actions.
Update:If not, then let me know what I can do to make it sound like I used reason.
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There is an interesting fact about reason: it must be logical, but it doesn't have to be agreeable to anyone but yourself.
Ayn Rand was a philosopher who said reason was the only absolute that man needed to accept in his life. When asked, "Whose reason should we follow?", she answered, "Why yours, of course!"
Your logic is easy to follow, it makes sense, it has an opening and a conclusion. It's good. The sentence, "It wasn't in my favor to keep up this behavior" demonstrates reason in your actions, and you tie it all together.
Here's how I would hand it back to you if I was your editor:
Aristotle's qualities of friendship and family can be summed up as having a social life. In eighth grade I was judgmental because I had high standards for friendship. As a result I had only a few friends I could trust to converse with. I spoke to everyone else as little as possible. I also refused to go to most of the parties I was invited to. In high school I had to make new friends, but because of my judgmental behavior it was difficult. The few classmates from junior high that went to the same high school as me got the impression that I did not like them simply because I never said hi to them in the halls and did not want to be part of their clique. It wasn't beneficial to keep up this anti-social behavior and I soon found myself miserable because of it. I had been conveying negativity to others and it has also taken a toll on my grades. Once I started speaking up and volunteering more I finally realized that I can actually by happy by being positive and sociable. We human beings are social creatures. If we weren’t then we would be just like animals, communicating through our actions.
Yes
1st line sounds confusing, wrongly worded.
I can get what you are trying to say.
Plenty of grammatical errors throughout
In the last line, I suggest you use "communicating solely through actions without any emotional involvement" in place of "communicating through our actions"