Blog Post #4 - Lotti

It’s currently 2:58 am and I feel like writing another blog so... here I am! During this blog I want to talk about the pressure of society. Another... you guessed it, major key. It’s so hard in high school to be original or even be yourself. Everywhere you turn people are buying the new shoes that are in style or posting about their exotic vacations and how great their life is. I know every one wants to ‘fit in’ but honestly is fitting in as great as it seems to be? Something that has truly been on my mind a lot is watching the girls from my old school grow into new people I hardly recognize anymore. During sixth grade we all would have died to be “cool and popular,” so we bought blinged out miss me jeans and joined the phase of clipping feathers in our hair. (that phase was completely ridiculous in my opinion.) As I see all of the girls who were popular and then compare them to the ones who weren’t, the major difference is who is actually enjoying their life. I see the private Instagram posts of girls complaining 24/7 and trying to fit into the newest trend, but the girls who weren’t in the spotlight who did their own thing, have nothing negative to post about or to even say honestly.  This world is so materialistic... it’s insane. I honestly think stepping outside of the social status and not caring what other people think is the best think a person could do for themselves. Doing things because everyone else is will not bring you anything positive. I know it’s a touch-and-go subject but I’m going to talk about it anyway. I know all of us see girls and guys getting drunk, smoking, partying, having sex, etc. all the time. But think about this. Why? Because society says drinking is cool. Because society says smoking cigarettes is the new thing. Because if you don’t have sex you’re either not in love or you’re a “goody goody.” These FAKE standards are ridiculous, no girl should have to spend $75 on a pair of jeans because they are the newest style and guys shouldn’t have to get with new girls every week because it makes them “manly.” Overall I just wanted to hopefully make one person understand what I’m saying. I encourage everyone to be true to yourself and ignore what society says because its standards aren’t even real, they are legit imaginary, completely made up. I have decided to stop listening to the current status quo and to be 100% myself. I think all of us should do the same because living for a fake status would be a waste of time and we don’t have much on this earth. Okay I’m done now, I hope at least one person is liking these because I like writing them lol. 

Peace out blog #4 

~lotts