CAN OPENER.

31 days...

I saw an interesting Friendster bulletin post from Loren regarding something. I thought i'd put this up here and make a topic out of it:

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THIS IS FOR YOUR AWARENESS. READ IT OR MISS IT

i am tired of "scene" kids waering thesame pants, posing on the camera thesame way, wearing a freakin bandana ontheir head, getting mad if they gotsthe same haircut as the other scenekids, CARING SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT THEYWEAR/HOW THEY LOOK/WHAT THEY LISTENTO. its getting hella old seriously,wtf?! grow up people!!!!! theres somuch more to care about other thanthose things you cant even take withyou when you die. its sad to see howconsumerism is taking over 95% ofeverybodies life. how about you juststop caring about what yourwearing??!!! tight pants or not, tryto pull off your own trend. shooot.what in the fifi is wrong witheverybody right now??!!! GA'HEAD ANDCUT YOUR WRIST AND HOPE TO DIE! shiit.stop pretending to be someone you arenot. i hope this is getting straightto yo head coz i dont post bulletins.and im about to flood this shiit withmy bulletins. because it makes me madhow people are so freakin shallow.

i respect those who are more intimate on their points in life, more than howmuch they care about what brings themtheir "coolness" in the present. BEYOURSELF KIDS. its wayyy better
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I dunno if she's talking about what we modernly call "Posers" of some sort but i'll post my piece about what i understand.

Here goes...

Well, it is a fact that there are a lot of people nowadays whom we could say as "scene" people. People who makes their entirety a "fashion statement" like having a self-declaration that we are like this and that and [forcibly] changes every way they are, just to be cool [e.g. "I am a Satanist. Die." or "Rakista/Hiphop ako, yeah!!!"] . Their clothing, gestures, even their own personal feelings [which makes things worse] are becoming a fashion trend. I won't disregard the fact about "the Evolution of Fashion": that every era has a specific fashion [like Bahag, Barong-Saya, Tux, Retro, Woodstock/Beatniks, New Wave etc.]. It is a part of our daily lives, which has been a "cycle".

But that cycle does get somewhat annoying nowadays. It's like it's becoming a requirement of socialism to have friends. I mean, we tend to change our entirety just to become "in" and one of the "cooler" ones. We need to be in this in order to be that. What can we do? We need to ride with the flow. We need to have fun, we need to be the best! And when we see a carbon-copy of our "frontal image" [e.g. pareho japorms] the point of comparison comes.

Rakista ka ba? Alam mo ba ang My Chemical Romance? Anung tugtugan mo? Kaya mo ba tong ganito? Hiphop ka ba?

Then an inevitable "war of the worlds" event comes. "Mas astig ako sayo!" or "Wala yan laos na yan!"... it's becoming a "competition" of the very same "fashion statement" we knew. This isn't a Beauty Pageant; much better if we call it as an ordinary "Fashion Show" where we are all models and we walk in the runway in front of everyone. If this is a "Battle" then, yes. But i think fashion shouldn't be aligned with competition without the proper declaration.

Or maybe we want to "stand out" and be different? If we think we can do better, let's just show everyone that "we can" and not just "talk" it out. If we're going to talk about what we can do at least talk with certainty. Have a grounds... if we're proud of who we are, and we talk and brag about it, at least have a living proof that we are what we are and not just we are what we want to be.

If we prefer to be "what we want to be", at least try naturally. If not then it's better not to be. For me, an important essence of "change" is naturality.

Fashion is a trend, yeah. It's part of daily life. It's the outer shell of ourselves. They say "we are what we wear". But sometimes [many times] the inside's completely NOT LIKE the surface that we see.

Honestly speaking, there has been a time that i was within the same annoying flow. All i can say is, some of us grow up... some takes time. The body gets old, yet the mind seems to be younger or older [depending on the person]. Time is of the essence... and it looks like i'm getting "seasoned" for this kind of stuff.

And so i quote:
"If this goes on, in the near future the most different thing will be the simplest one."

Then everything is in cycle.


Share your thoughts...


* Sorry kung me tinamaan man, interesting lang tong post kaya i made a topic hehe. ^^