"I'm sick of the clones. I look around and I see a generation squandered; I see a generation lost to the media, to the mainstream, to whats in and whats not. I see a generation taken down by their own will. I'm sick of everyone being the same. I'm sick of the conformity. I'm sick of the constant stream of monotony. People dont realize it because they are so submerged in their own self serving shit. If everyone is the same, no one realizes that they aren't their own person. I wish we could listen to ourselves and how awful we are. You could put all the people at our school in one vast room and record it, and all you would hear is dull, white noise. This is the death of originality; of unique ability; of human possibility. And I hate to see such beauty and hope turned into vile human waste. We are the architects of our own destruction, and our foundation is crumbling.
Take a page from Thoreau's book and go live in a cabin for two years. And when you come back, I want you to try to look me in the eye and tell me I'm wrong.
In the world I see, society is based on the majority. And I'm not prominent enough to even make a dent. Lets just say, if I turned up missing one day, not much would change. And the last thing I want is for people to change. I dont think being a 'beacon' necessarily works. I can honestly say I am a complete individual without being boastful or saying such a statement with pride. Its not like a medal of honor or an award you pin onto the breast pocket of your shirt. Its an honest to god fact. I dont want to change anyone. That is not what I'm going for. That is the last thing I'm going for. I just wish some people would poke their heads from out under the sand and care to notice that a vast majority of at least the highschool people are distinguishably identical. We're all individuals, but individually we dont add up to much...All individuals, but there is a sick underlying tone of loss of purpose. Loss of spark. Its like we're going out, a fuse has popped and we're slowly fading. I dont want to live in a world of doused candles and broken lamps. But at this point, its too dark to see whats right in front of our nose. Its sad really. Because we can make such music, such art, such beauty.
Its like, I know laundry loads of people who persistently work themselves to the bone in the efforts of their studies, they want to get into great colleges and get a respectable job. I love this ideal. The problem is, no one knows what they want to do. They know they're trying to get somewhere, but they dont know where. And its just sad.
*I'm not being a bitch or snotty or thinking everyone should change. I'm just looking at us from a step back and simply saying what I appear to notice."
What the hell is up with everyone saying "rude"?
I mean, I get it. We all have our friends and when we are around them enough, we start showing some of the same traits and qualities. But that doesnt mean we have to lose ourself.
I want to meet someone. Thats what is so good about him. He's a breath of fresh air. And I love him for it. AND thats why I appreciate Walker Mills so goddamn much! He's so... himself.
And I'm not trying to change anyone, because I believe everyone has the right to be anyone they choose. I dont want to change anyone. I'm not that kind of person. I just... I dont know. I really dont know. There is just something deeply wrong with it all. NO, NOT WRONG. Just unsettling perhaps..
I think too much.
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