the memories that you will cherish, the friendships and bonds that will last a lifetime, the choices you make here will dictate your entire life, this is the place where life begins...ect. ect. all these overused cliches are used relentlessly to describe that one place that either "makes or breaks you" is either "heaven or hell" and you are either "popular or untimately uncool". you take your label and deal with it, whether you 're fond of it or not. truthfully, i don't believe one bit of any of that ridiculousness, it's simply the mass produced idea that big shots in the media world shove down our throats in the form of lame and too-cheesy-for-words "movies" (if that's what you wanna call them), music and t.v shows. the even more ridiculous thing is that it appears as if a heckuva lot of us actually buy into that garbage! we're playing high school by the rule books. step-by-step making sure it's the "perfect high school experience" i see the self concious girls desperatly scavaging to check off all the things in their to-do list on how to be popular: cute outfits, subtle cleavage, expert flirting with just the right boys, attend every party where we laugh at jokes that aren't funny, makeout with any horny boy or girl that we would never even look twice at if it wasn't for all that tequila in our fruity mixed drinks and do rather trashy things we've been patiently awaiting for the moment we're drunk enough to do. or the equally as insecure boys, with their i'm-so-freakin-cool facade, their days simply a never ending quest to get girls to do dirty little things that we were shocked and disgusted to find out adults did as kids. school work is only for nerds, and why would we need to do work anyways? we'll just find some crap job a monkey could do and spend all our money on beer and guys nights out and not on our children's educations, cause why would my kids even think about going to college? we are not clever, nor witty, and any conversation we have about "love" is simply our lust screaming in the hopes that you might just take your clothes off, cause girls are never beautiful, just hot. all of us male and female drones aren't looking to save the world, we just wanna look good and party. i think we're all more than this stereotype, so why is it the only colours some show? we all have these fabulous quirks just scraping and gnawing inside of us to be free and get its fame, and it's not a bad thing. it's actually downright beautiful, those quirks. i know there's more than what the eye sees, but sometimes it's worrying when even when the eye prys, theres still nothing more to it. high school is like this alternate reality, what happens there, whether it be our so called "labels" our friends, ous grades, our attitudes or our style, is not exactly reflective of what's really in the real world. i dunno what i'm trying to say, maybe just don't be fake? but maybe you don't know you're being fake, maybe you're just being " you " and this whole rant means absolutly nothing. oh well, i tried. in any case, my conclusion goes like this: high school can be anything you want it to be. it doesn't have to be some high school musical prototype, you don;t have to be in a clique or resort to being an absolute loner, just pave your path, and pave it through a tropical jungle full of life and colour, not through some old downtown streets that have been paved far too many times.
yours truly,
hannah.
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