Can we choose our own path in the future? Yes, yes we can. Can we choose what we want to be in the future? Yes, yes we can. So if we can do this how is it possible we can't choose to be who we want in high school? Look around and see the different cliques with styles of their own. Yet there is always that one clique everyone looks up to, to use as a guide or a goal to pursue during high school years. The popular kids. Everyone, most, everyone wants to look like them and wants to be like them. Will we all end up looking like eachother going the way we're headed too? i choose to take a detour and go down another path. I'm not those artsy girls that dress "different" and I'm not those pretty girls that dress all "pretty". But i do have my taste and i dress the way I want. I may not live to anyone's expectations on how people should look or act, because i have no expectations of others. I go with the flow as long as i stay out of harms way and remember to be myself. i dress my way, nice, more than decent, less than flashy, but just nice.
Can we call ourselves mindless zombies if we all look the same, if we allow the styles that are In-style take over us? I mean the flats, almost every girl has a pair, is that being like everyone else, following the new fad going around? Am i being a hypocrite for not liking what i see but yet doing the same thing. Or can it just be a part of my style, that i call my own. Disregarding what one might say, i like the styles that come and eventually go. But to be like everyone else i say "no" why be like the other 500 girls at school, mix it up a bit add a piece here, take a piece there......
Mindless Zombie?
By Lahazy - Posted on February 20th, 2008
That's a good way to put it, and I like that you recognized not only the popular girls and criticized them, but also the girls that recognized the popular girls and started doing the complete opposite of them to "stand out" or be "individuals", you know who I'm talking about, those girls that used to be normal up until the last few weeks in middle school, but dressed in all black on the first week of high school, then later on in high school realize that they just wasted a good opportunity to get to know people other than people who dressed like them.
I've seen many girls like that, and being out of high school and noticing how some of these kids that are going to high school following the trend of becoming "individuals" and start the gothic stage, or whatever stage it is makes me shake my head because I've watched it all live with my peers.
I respect your choices.
I was not like everyone else in high school. I chose to be different. Maybe it was not the same at every school, but at my school the kids who were popular were not kids who should be looked up to. It was a grimy group of people at best. Looking back from college I realize how glad I am that I was never a part of their culture. What's funnier, is looking back at how none of them have done anything with their lives. They're still the same group of high school friends. Too bad they're 20 and living at home.
The average age for people to "leave the nest" (so to speak) is twenty six. There's nothing wrong with living at home when you're 20.
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What's the worst that could happen, apart from all of us being flattened or fried or whatever bombs do? [Rudy Steiner from The Book Thief]
I agree with you on that. Since many people go away to college and in these four to five years after high school, a person will only be likely to get an education and get in debt in these years, and they will have to wait another 4-5 years to get a job and pay off the debts.
In many cultures the son lives with the parents until the parents die, while getting married and living at the parent's home with other siblings and their own families. It's not wrong to live with your parents, after all they are the ones that are raising you and caring for you, and if you stay with them you're not a loser.