any way u look at it ...
not sure if this is gonna make sense but i'm thinking this through as i whack it out.
okay. sometimes the most important thing 'bout growing up is learning when not to try to fight it. u can argue about what looks cool and what doesn't. what tastes good and what doesn't. what's right and what's wrong. but one of the hardest things about growing up is recognizing when it's time to step away.
as a kid, u get harassed about all kinds of things. weird shirts your mom made you wear to school. strange things your family did that freak out the other kids. things like that. and kids can spend hours, weeks, heck, even years remembering that kind of stuff.
but u hit ur teens, and ur supposed to be almost grown up. and ur supposed to put all that crap aside and figure out who you are and what you wanna be. and half the fun is laughing or shuddering over various *cough* miscalculations ya made along the way, yanno? and that's cool.
what's not cool is when people make these snap judgements that don't even have anything to do with you -- they have everything to do with how screwed up some people can be ... and you're stuck with that totally not you stupidity, on a daily basis, for as long as you can stand being there.
so what do you do? you can try to fight it. you can try to fight them. but after awhile, you just kind of sit back and figure it isn't worth the time or the effort to try to fight something like that. and so you decide to just walk away.
that's the end of it?
not by a long shot. because people are fundamentally human and they can't simply accept things like that. u walk away and suddenly it's even worse than before, and its worse BECAUSE you chose to walk away. so now they follow you and harass you. they go out of their way to harass you and they involve other people to harass you.
yanno, adults keep saying "well that's SO high school" but they should stop and think about it. this is depressing. not so much because it's happening, but because you look at the adults in your world and you realize ... damn. it doesn't go away, does it. no wonder they had to make laws about harassment.
okay. sometimes the most important thing 'bout growing up is learning when not to try to fight it. u can argue about what looks cool and what doesn't. what tastes good and what doesn't. what's right and what's wrong. but one of the hardest things about growing up is recognizing when it's time to step away.
as a kid, u get harassed about all kinds of things. weird shirts your mom made you wear to school. strange things your family did that freak out the other kids. things like that. and kids can spend hours, weeks, heck, even years remembering that kind of stuff.
but u hit ur teens, and ur supposed to be almost grown up. and ur supposed to put all that crap aside and figure out who you are and what you wanna be. and half the fun is laughing or shuddering over various *cough* miscalculations ya made along the way, yanno? and that's cool.
what's not cool is when people make these snap judgements that don't even have anything to do with you -- they have everything to do with how screwed up some people can be ... and you're stuck with that totally not you stupidity, on a daily basis, for as long as you can stand being there.
so what do you do? you can try to fight it. you can try to fight them. but after awhile, you just kind of sit back and figure it isn't worth the time or the effort to try to fight something like that. and so you decide to just walk away.
that's the end of it?
not by a long shot. because people are fundamentally human and they can't simply accept things like that. u walk away and suddenly it's even worse than before, and its worse BECAUSE you chose to walk away. so now they follow you and harass you. they go out of their way to harass you and they involve other people to harass you.
yanno, adults keep saying "well that's SO high school" but they should stop and think about it. this is depressing. not so much because it's happening, but because you look at the adults in your world and you realize ... damn. it doesn't go away, does it. no wonder they had to make laws about harassment.
posted by monkutaru at 18:01
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