acrossthelines wrote:
This year.
*Rant time!*
I say that because this year in particular has been ridiculous with overdone irony. I can't take it. My first memories were being made in 1991, and I remember nothing from MTV before 1993 (when I was three lol but I remember watching pretty much every major video that came out 1993-2002, which is kind of when music videos died... I even remember the controversy over some of them that came out when I was 4-5; I will never know why my memory is so awesome and detailed), but I swear it's been worse than that couple of years. I feel more and more alienated from my age group in general, and even from some good acquaintances in particular, because how they live and how I see things are so very different. It's getting to the point where I relate only to those much older and much younger than myself on a superficial level to match the deeper one that's always been there, but I've still been able to relate more to people my age superficially due to societal and cultural influence than to others. That's going away, though. It's all the people too old and the people too young to be affected by the nonsense. This year people have become so much more disingenuous than they were before... It's amazing to me that it's happened in just a year.
Just do what you do because it is who you are, not because it is the opposite of who you are or because it is the opposite of what society expects even though you do secretly enjoy it; stop being so secretive about everything and just come out with who you are and what you love and be who and what you are because that is your core, not because of some stupid meme (which is amusing on the internet as long as it's not the obnoxious tripe on MLIA lol, but outside of that realm,
come on). Stop pretending you're wearing those clothes because it's "unexpected" and act like you're wearing them for the reason that you are: because you just plain like them, not because you're trying to be ridiculous. Every once in a while I will catch myself doing something because it's ironic, and I just want to punch myself in the face when that happens. Give me back the time when it wasn't, "We're just like you!" and when it was instead, "You can never even come close to me because I am a god." Maybe the younger ones, born post-2000 I mean, will be better off. They're just children right now, and perhaps the irony will be gone by the time they're older teenagers, at least. It seems to come and go in waves, though, at least in recent decades. It'll leave for ten years only to influence the young adults of the next ten. It was due to come back with a vengeance, but still, what on earth.
The scene/hipster and emo hairstyles of today will, in twenty years, be viewed like mullets and mushroom cuts are right now.
Sometimes I get caught thinking that everyone in my age group is like my select less-than-handful of friends. Then I go to class and listen to a debate in the middle of it, and my little world comes crashing down.
Goodness, are people ignorant, easily led, unthinking, too lazy to do research on anything before forming opinions (that goes with ignorance, obviously), superficial, and cruel. That, at least, is the same across all age groups, though. Gotta choose 'em carefully (or not... a lot of times, it's obvious lol).
i second the "this year" although its for reasons different then yours.
my grandparents moved into assisted living after my grandmother had to have the lower half of her leg amputated because of a blood clot
my other grandma broke her hit riding a childrens scooter (long story) and couldnt live by herself so shes living here.
this effectively means that i have no idea when ill be back in buffalo since my family always stayed at either grandparents house, both of which are no longer an option...
my sister dating a complete douschebag, him being a douschebag, they break up, they get back together. repeat this a couple times while adding in hysterical breakdowns, a shit ton of fighting between her and every other person who knows the story.
my and my girlfriend took a couple "breaks" through out the first half of the year..while they only lasted a couple days at most, they still hurt and still sucked.
graduating college and the realization that i might have picked the wrong school. ive narrowed it down to 2 possibilities. either im under prepared for the graphic design field or im selling myself short.
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ATL, the irony will still be there when the post-2000 children grow up. after all, look who they get to look up to. the bullshit never ends.
That being said, bring on 2010 please.
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