whats wrong with us anyways?
All right... so I haven’t posted in a while and I’m sorry to the 4 people who read this blog, because I love you for reading it. I watched the movie blood diamond last night, it was really good, it was one of the few and far between movies that reminded me that there are still a few useful people in Hollywood. Anyways apart from curbing any desire I ever had for anything with diamonds, it also solidified my ideas on the fact that engagement rings are just another gimmick that we are dragged into spending zillions on each year. What does a diamond say? Even if there's 100 carats sitting on your finger... that is no official determination of love or meaning in the end. In fact if one finds themselves with such a ring they might want to question the motives behind it.
If people are truly in love why do they need a 2-carat ring to prove it? Yeah... I don’t really know either. Why not save the cash and put it down on a house, hell, why not go on a two-month trip to Europe for your honeymoon?? Seriously what does a ring say to everyone else? It’s a status symbol like a car or a purse or whatever the hell we define each other with. I don’t want to be another person buying into it all. I mean its nice if you can afford it and if you have already bought your fiancé a nice ring good on you, but they are not as rare as they are said to be and they are no where near the worth they are sold at. Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s a big huge waste of cash!
Oh, my other beef is TV shows these days. I had never seen the TV show one tree hill before, and on Tuesday night I went over to a friends and turns out they were having a one tree hill marathon. Well, I started to watch the show that I assumed was about university age students. Suddenly they are in a high school, what?!? They are in grade 11... hold the phone, they are like 27 year olds! they all look older than me that’s for sure, and I’ve been out of high school for a while. So I keep watching and in the first scene there is a popular rich skinny girl going on and on in the middle of bio class about how horny she is and how she needs to get plowed… well she didn’t say plowed but she did say she was horny and needed to get laid. What are we teaching these kids? For crying out loud I barely knew what a blowjob was back then, well that’s not entirely true.
The point is that the whole show was glamorizing sexual relationships between teenagers not to mention massive amounts of underage drinking and consumerism. And do you think any of them will ever get knocked up and have to drop out of school I highly doubt it, or what about an std? and where are their parents in the whole thing. im sure i sound so old fashioned right now, but sometimes i wonder if its a good idea to expose kids who barely know how to make their own oppinions and ideas to so much crap! What about the other two “grade eleven” students who divorced themselves from their parents so that they could get married? They had an apartment nicer than almost every newly wed couple I have ever met, and they were in grade 11 going to school and working part time jobs to make their rent. I’m sorry that total bullshit. Two 17 year olds leading completely independent lives? Just flying through life managing payments, rent, school, jobs, playing team sports after school and then finally majorly parting on the weekends? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it is not just virtually impossible, it is impossible. No wonder half the kids I meet volunteering with youth groups are so clueless about life. They are fed these bull shit you can have everything with out working for it lies… okay, i know not every kid is stupid enough to buy into it. i didnt buy into it right? well that might not have been so true, if i had cable in highschool who knows what would have happend to me! This Is probably getting really long and you probably aren't even reading it anymore. So, sorry I ranted for so long. It just pissed me off that people could market something so of the wall to teens and that they are willing to buy it. The end!
If people are truly in love why do they need a 2-carat ring to prove it? Yeah... I don’t really know either. Why not save the cash and put it down on a house, hell, why not go on a two-month trip to Europe for your honeymoon?? Seriously what does a ring say to everyone else? It’s a status symbol like a car or a purse or whatever the hell we define each other with. I don’t want to be another person buying into it all. I mean its nice if you can afford it and if you have already bought your fiancé a nice ring good on you, but they are not as rare as they are said to be and they are no where near the worth they are sold at. Sorry to burst your bubble but it’s a big huge waste of cash!
Oh, my other beef is TV shows these days. I had never seen the TV show one tree hill before, and on Tuesday night I went over to a friends and turns out they were having a one tree hill marathon. Well, I started to watch the show that I assumed was about university age students. Suddenly they are in a high school, what?!? They are in grade 11... hold the phone, they are like 27 year olds! they all look older than me that’s for sure, and I’ve been out of high school for a while. So I keep watching and in the first scene there is a popular rich skinny girl going on and on in the middle of bio class about how horny she is and how she needs to get plowed… well she didn’t say plowed but she did say she was horny and needed to get laid. What are we teaching these kids? For crying out loud I barely knew what a blowjob was back then, well that’s not entirely true.
The point is that the whole show was glamorizing sexual relationships between teenagers not to mention massive amounts of underage drinking and consumerism. And do you think any of them will ever get knocked up and have to drop out of school I highly doubt it, or what about an std? and where are their parents in the whole thing. im sure i sound so old fashioned right now, but sometimes i wonder if its a good idea to expose kids who barely know how to make their own oppinions and ideas to so much crap! What about the other two “grade eleven” students who divorced themselves from their parents so that they could get married? They had an apartment nicer than almost every newly wed couple I have ever met, and they were in grade 11 going to school and working part time jobs to make their rent. I’m sorry that total bullshit. Two 17 year olds leading completely independent lives? Just flying through life managing payments, rent, school, jobs, playing team sports after school and then finally majorly parting on the weekends? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that it is not just virtually impossible, it is impossible. No wonder half the kids I meet volunteering with youth groups are so clueless about life. They are fed these bull shit you can have everything with out working for it lies… okay, i know not every kid is stupid enough to buy into it. i didnt buy into it right? well that might not have been so true, if i had cable in highschool who knows what would have happend to me! This Is probably getting really long and you probably aren't even reading it anymore. So, sorry I ranted for so long. It just pissed me off that people could market something so of the wall to teens and that they are willing to buy it. The end!
posted by good girls finish first at 3:30 p.m.
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