Special
Who am I? This is question that I am often asked by adults and my friends. I don 't ever know what to say because it’s a question that in my opinion has no real answer. Think about it -- aren 't we supposed to figure out who we are, and who we want to be, after college once we start working? But in the modern day and age that just seems like a pipe dream. There is so much competition and definition by numbers; I mean our grades, our weight, our SAT scores etc. We are forced into an isolated state of mind in which we have to choose our path or career before we are fully ready to take on the world. We live in a scary place where everyone is supposed to have the same path if you can afford it. Graduate high school, go to college, then graduate college,
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I mean, I feel that if I don 't follow that path then I will not live a "happy" life. But what is the definition of happy? If being happy is doing the same things as all other people around you, then why would that make you different? Oh, you got into Stanford you must be special. NO, sure it’s hard to get into but there are about 1000 other people who got in and not just you! That is my question -- if it is not just us, then why are we told we are special if we become a part of something? I read somewhere that something should be special because you are a part of it. In the world I am living in as a forward thinking 14-year old girl, the definition of ‘special’ seems warped with money as the main benefactor. The more special you are, the richer you are…like what the hell? It’s true that people like hippies who dedicate their life to finding enlightment and spiritual happiness are pushed away as outcasts or people with no vision of what to do. I recently studied the 1960s not in a conventional way but through the clothes of that time period. The clothes were special because they were one of a kind. They may not have looked like Kate Spade or Louis Vuitton but you could see the essence of the person who