TYPICAL. This very article is a manifestation of a high school cliché, the kind where the writer tends to rant about seemingly trivial matters. But most of the time, it's always the small, unimportant things that make the big difference (another cliché).
Often times, I can't help but think that we're back in high school all over again. In that small confined world which we always look back with reminiscent smiles, we were indeed living lives that weren't pressed with societal problems. The world we were in seemed so far away from adult and worldly worries.
Often times, I can't help but think that we're back in high school all over again. In that small confined world which we always look back with reminiscent smiles, we were indeed living lives that weren't pressed with societal problems. The world we were in seemed so far away from adult and worldly worries.
The crises we dealt with were those of broken hearts, unrequited loves from our ultimate crushes, the school bullies who pester us into giving them our baons, pens and demand us to make their home works, the Math teacher who speaks gibberish in Algebra - these sorts of problems. It was also a world where our loyalties swayed from one group to the other since we can't seem to make up our minds as to where we should really belong. We were exploring our individualities while at the same time coping with the dilemmas that adolescence was weighing on us. With the differences that we had amongst each other coupled with the immaturity we still possessed, we had created those stereotypes about people around us - loving and or hating them because we couldn't seem to identify where we should rightfully place ourselves.
Who would never want to be the queen bee? Or the school's dashing Romeo? People gifted with looks and the package that everyone envies and everyone wants to have. Then there are the nerds - outcasts in their own ways since their immense brains seem to alienate them from the 'average'. So then come the average Joes and Janes who find comfort in the fact that being among the majority is safe. The ultimate outcasts also exist-shunned ones because they are 'different'. (Think Glee if you're a Gleek, a fan that is.) And because it's high school, it's a small pond where everyone wants to become the big fish, we chance upon each other. We fall into a game of baiting, betrayal, bickering, backstabbing, gossip-circus etc. We spread rumors, even unfounded ones, and use these as our tools to ruin someone.
That's high school. It is so unfortunate, however, that we still live in that stereotypical world. The maturity that these years should have brought us is not that apparent as we continue to be judgmental and be misguided with the notions that we build about people. We still cling to this gossipy system and thus make unwise judgments about other individuals. Unknowingly, that world back then gave us a subtle taste of what we would be facing right now. Aside from the ostensibly worldly quandaries in politics, overpopulation, wars, and other tragedies that plague us, we are also encumbered with those similar cliché problems that we encountered back in high school. We misjudge, we betray each other, we let our judgments be clouded by mere hearsays.
No wonder it takes us forever to solve our societal problems when we can't seem to do something about these little green monsters that are residing within us.
Who would never want to be the queen bee? Or the school's dashing Romeo? People gifted with looks and the package that everyone envies and everyone wants to have. Then there are the nerds - outcasts in their own ways since their immense brains seem to alienate them from the 'average'. So then come the average Joes and Janes who find comfort in the fact that being among the majority is safe. The ultimate outcasts also exist-shunned ones because they are 'different'. (Think Glee if you're a Gleek, a fan that is.) And because it's high school, it's a small pond where everyone wants to become the big fish, we chance upon each other. We fall into a game of baiting, betrayal, bickering, backstabbing, gossip-circus etc. We spread rumors, even unfounded ones, and use these as our tools to ruin someone.
That's high school. It is so unfortunate, however, that we still live in that stereotypical world. The maturity that these years should have brought us is not that apparent as we continue to be judgmental and be misguided with the notions that we build about people. We still cling to this gossipy system and thus make unwise judgments about other individuals. Unknowingly, that world back then gave us a subtle taste of what we would be facing right now. Aside from the ostensibly worldly quandaries in politics, overpopulation, wars, and other tragedies that plague us, we are also encumbered with those similar cliché problems that we encountered back in high school. We misjudge, we betray each other, we let our judgments be clouded by mere hearsays.
No wonder it takes us forever to solve our societal problems when we can't seem to do something about these little green monsters that are residing within us.