Sunday, March 23, 2008 @12:33 AM
It is a norm for young people to try to act different?
You know I have seen so many teenagers trying so hard to be what they are not, the way they dress, the way they talk and the way they present themselves.
Just last Sunday, I was shocked to learn that 13 years old actually wear make-up. So, it is all what the young people are shopping for nowadays? Mascara and eye-liner? I thought it was bad enough to start wearing make-up when you barely pass the age of 13 but can someone explain the rationale of wearing make-up to a beach?
You know I think I am such a failure but even I had difficulty differentiating between the mascara and eye liner when I was 19. I didn’t occur to me that I have to know these things and I had always refer the mascara as “put the eye lash one” to my girlfriends.
And speaking of that, I have a friend asking me why I don’t wear make up and so I answered him with my first instinct “For what?’ and for that, he broke out into fits of laughter and declare he wants a daughter like me next time. I wasn’t even sure if that’s supposed to be a compliment -_-
The thing is, I am not anti make-up or something. It’s just a natural thing for girls to want to look good and even I am no exception. I have friends who wear make-up to school too and it’s no big deal and even I do put on make-up when there’s a special occasion but 13 years old??? How did she learn how to put on the mascara in the first place?
Maybe I am just out-dated and all the 13 years old girls are wearing make-up everywhere they go and attracting all the wrong attention on them but all I could see from their actions was the lack of confidence and trying too hard to be someone they are not.
Maybe it’s just a path they have to go through whereby they are at the stage of finding an identity for themselves and in the midst of it doing things they shouldn’t be doing at their age. Or maybe it’s just simply the change in the generation. It just feels so strange and weird.
Friends are people who accept you for who you are, not for the things you wear, the things you do or the things you don’t do.Why do I always have the urge to blog when I am really supposed to be studying?