Particularly high school society, and even more specifically the society of high school girls. Even though I belong to both those categories, my many faults rarely include the ones I'm sick of right now.
First off, why on earth are my school mates so mean to those who are a little departed from the norm? They don't despise everyone who's unusual, which is good because if they did I'd be screwed, but you've all been through high school, so you know who I mean. Yes, they're often socially inept, they sometimes do or say awkward things, and some of them even try to get on your nerves, but that gives you no excuse to make fun of them at every opportunity. There are two girls in particular who everyone teases without reason. True, they do some pretty odd things, but not only are they incredibly sweet people if you ever meet them - they also have had rough lives. And the things that people target them for are things they have absolutely no control over and are things that really don't make a difference in them personally. Seriously. Do teens have some sort of sensor that tells them who's hurting most so they can jab at their wounds even more? For all the other people who are despised, I can generally see a way in which they've brought some of it on themselves, but that still doesn't give anybody an excuse to treat them like trash.
Now on to the more specific category of girls. Can somebody please explain to me why on earth life has to be a drama-gorged gossip fest? Come on. Does it truly matter who fought with their boyfriend last night or who got wasted at a party? Does that have any bearing on what meaningful uses you or anyone else could put their lives to? Why does there seem to be a need to create worthless drama when you could be doing something worthwhile?
The girl issue expands to the world in general: why the obsession with celebrities, particularly once they end up arrested or in rehab or something? Nobody even knows these people, yet there are so many individuals that make the life of some big-shot the focal point of their life. I can't even comprehend how that could be at all satisfying. Maybe they just want to ignore their own lives because something there is messed up. Well here's a newsflash for them: it's never going to get better if you keep shoving it out of sight.
That's all for now. But I can assure you similar things will be cropping up every now and then. I tend to detest society during the winter.
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A late acquaintance of mine would often say in an scathing monotone, "Drama, drama, drama."
Society is weird. That is why I shall have nothing to do with it.
When you get out of high school, most of this will go away. Yes, it'll still be there occasionally, but it's far easier to ignore because it isn't shoved into your face everyday. High schools are just breeding grounds for things like that, sadly.
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