By Sonya Gorman, (16, Headliners)
“Back in the Day”, life for a normal young person consisted of a game of some sport or other. However, in this day and age, there isn’t even such a thing as “normal” anymore. Young people are pushed into a box, or labelled emo, chav or trendy.
Young people don’t want to be young anymore. They never seem to go out; always just sitting on online messenger and blogging sites such as myspace, bebo or msn? There are thousands of replicated clones of these sites; uniquely tailored to individual needs. Maybe this is part of the reason why young people are labelling themselves nowadays, to fit in.
Young people can’t even like music they want to these days in case it doesn’t fit into what there friends think their style is. Young people can’t be themselves, in a world of political correctness and freedom of speech. Why can’t young people do and be what we want to be? In this case its not “scene” or “cool” to be doing that.
You have to be a certain clothes size, have a particular style, and to drink/smoke to be cool. You have to do certain things and wear what society tells u to. Young people spend too much time sitting around being “cool” that it simply not healthy. For as long as there has been a young person there have been people who tell you how to act, what to say, and what to try.
People (like me) should stop moaning and start doing something about this. By not conforming to all these rules and blah. Well I’ve got news for you I already have. If you haven’t had fun squeezing into your tiny size zero skinny jeans and listening to panic at the disco then you haven’t live as a conformist.
“Back in the Day”, life for a normal young person consisted of a game of some sport or other. However, in this day and age, there isn’t even such a thing as “normal” anymore. Young people are pushed into a box, or labelled emo, chav or trendy.
Young people don’t want to be young anymore. They never seem to go out; always just sitting on online messenger and blogging sites such as myspace, bebo or msn? There are thousands of replicated clones of these sites; uniquely tailored to individual needs. Maybe this is part of the reason why young people are labelling themselves nowadays, to fit in.
Young people can’t even like music they want to these days in case it doesn’t fit into what there friends think their style is. Young people can’t be themselves, in a world of political correctness and freedom of speech. Why can’t young people do and be what we want to be? In this case its not “scene” or “cool” to be doing that.
You have to be a certain clothes size, have a particular style, and to drink/smoke to be cool. You have to do certain things and wear what society tells u to. Young people spend too much time sitting around being “cool” that it simply not healthy. For as long as there has been a young person there have been people who tell you how to act, what to say, and what to try.
People (like me) should stop moaning and start doing something about this. By not conforming to all these rules and blah. Well I’ve got news for you I already have. If you haven’t had fun squeezing into your tiny size zero skinny jeans and listening to panic at the disco then you haven’t live as a conformist.
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