I have had an interesting few days. As I'm sure you all know, it's that time of year when school is back in, and TV shows are coming back on the air.
You might wonder how these two are related, and how they are related to the topic. Well, about a week ago, I was extremely excited for one of my favorite shows to come back on the air. Oftentimes, I would joke about how excited I was, and how I was counting down the minutes until it aired to various people. Most of those people responded with something along the lines of, "... Why are you so excited about a TV show?" To which I would reply, "I just get really into it!"
I've also started hanging out with a new group of people. They are all best friends, and I'm sort of a new comer to the group. We hang out all lunch, and do the norm. Walk around and talk. However, I've noticed something that makes me incredibly sad. It seem that these girls never get really excited for anything. They just seem to talk about nothing important, and never talk about things that they like. It's always just about school, or who's a *****, or whatever drama is going on. Of course, I haven't been around these girls for long (Though I used to be friends with all three of them. In fact, I was best friends with two of them at one point.) so maybe I just haven't seen what they are truly happy about. I don't want to be hypocritical in saying that they seem unhappy and then belittling them for that, because I am a pretty unhappy person myself. But I can get happy and excited for certain things, be it a new episode of a favorite TV show, a funny story, whatever.
But they just seem so apathetic. I don't hang out with them on the weekends, so I'm sure they have fun then, and I've seen them laugh a hell of a lot at certain things at school, but there's just an underlying sense of not caring, and it makes me sad.
Another thing that makes me uneasy is the fact that people mock you if you express an interest in something. They will rub it in your face if you are excited for something, and make fun of you for it. Most of it is in a joking way, but it's like they are saying that not caring at all -or holding it in altogether- is cooler than actually liking something.
I don't want to put on a superiority complex or anything, but I feel that we are above this kind of pettiness. Isn't it okay to be excited, and to express the fact that you are excited without having to be ridiculed for it?
For the record, I know this may sound like I picked the wrong group to hang out with. I don't really have the right group, and I've been told that my best bet in high school is to reconnect with old friends, so I'm giving it a shot.
It seems that most teenagers are like that, anyways. But that is my question to you, Escapists. Do you feel like most teenagers are apathetic about... mostly everything? Do you feel I'm overreacting? Is it all just in my head?
Here's a broader question for more discussion: When/if you were a teenager, what kinds of discussions did you have? What kinds of discussions do you hear nowadays that make you want to put cotton in your ears?
Oh, and I feel I should mention that I am fifteen, with many of my peers going on sixteen.
Seriously, if you guys made it all the way down to the bottom, I applaud your guts. That was a lot of boring text.
You might wonder how these two are related, and how they are related to the topic. Well, about a week ago, I was extremely excited for one of my favorite shows to come back on the air. Oftentimes, I would joke about how excited I was, and how I was counting down the minutes until it aired to various people. Most of those people responded with something along the lines of, "... Why are you so excited about a TV show?" To which I would reply, "I just get really into it!"
I've also started hanging out with a new group of people. They are all best friends, and I'm sort of a new comer to the group. We hang out all lunch, and do the norm. Walk around and talk. However, I've noticed something that makes me incredibly sad. It seem that these girls never get really excited for anything. They just seem to talk about nothing important, and never talk about things that they like. It's always just about school, or who's a *****, or whatever drama is going on. Of course, I haven't been around these girls for long (Though I used to be friends with all three of them. In fact, I was best friends with two of them at one point.) so maybe I just haven't seen what they are truly happy about. I don't want to be hypocritical in saying that they seem unhappy and then belittling them for that, because I am a pretty unhappy person myself. But I can get happy and excited for certain things, be it a new episode of a favorite TV show, a funny story, whatever.
But they just seem so apathetic. I don't hang out with them on the weekends, so I'm sure they have fun then, and I've seen them laugh a hell of a lot at certain things at school, but there's just an underlying sense of not caring, and it makes me sad.
Another thing that makes me uneasy is the fact that people mock you if you express an interest in something. They will rub it in your face if you are excited for something, and make fun of you for it. Most of it is in a joking way, but it's like they are saying that not caring at all -or holding it in altogether- is cooler than actually liking something.
I don't want to put on a superiority complex or anything, but I feel that we are above this kind of pettiness. Isn't it okay to be excited, and to express the fact that you are excited without having to be ridiculed for it?
For the record, I know this may sound like I picked the wrong group to hang out with. I don't really have the right group, and I've been told that my best bet in high school is to reconnect with old friends, so I'm giving it a shot.
It seems that most teenagers are like that, anyways. But that is my question to you, Escapists. Do you feel like most teenagers are apathetic about... mostly everything? Do you feel I'm overreacting? Is it all just in my head?
Here's a broader question for more discussion: When/if you were a teenager, what kinds of discussions did you have? What kinds of discussions do you hear nowadays that make you want to put cotton in your ears?
Oh, and I feel I should mention that I am fifteen, with many of my peers going on sixteen.
Seriously, if you guys made it all the way down to the bottom, I applaud your guts. That was a lot of boring text.
