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so... i was sitting in a bar friday night with some old highschool friends. we were talking about how things 'used to be'. one friend happened to say 'you know, ten years ago if we had seen ourselves today, i think we would have shot ourselves.' i had to agree. ten years ago we were 'those' kids. the ones that people didnt really want to associate themselves with. we kept to ourselves. it was a lot like the caste system... the untouchables. dressed in holey jeans, black shirts, unkempt hair, and doc martens, we wandered the halls of our schools avoiding the 'popular' crowd at all costs. so here we are today, wearing business clothes and crap from abercrombie and fitch, driving cars that are practical, as opposed to ones that are 'cool'. ten years ago i would never have been caught dead shopping, much less working, in the store i work now. in our hearts we have changed, but in our minds we havent. and its amazing that two little words can end up meaning so much. im sorry. it goes a whole lot farther now than it used to.
note: i still wear doc martens and a whole lot of black, though my clothes have gotten much more expensive over the years. i think all of ours have. something about the feel of a good fabric as opposed to cheap t-shirts with bands and/or stupid little sayings plastered all over them. *shrug*
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Very very true. But I still wear the band t-shirts and the one with the silly little logos on them. Guess I will never grow up, and that may or may not be a good thing.
Posted by: DS | November 20, 2006 05:48 PM
and flannels. i used to wear a LOT of flannel. i guess you could say that way back when, i was a mix of goth and grunge. depends on the year though. mostly grunge in middle school and the beginning of highschool. then goth. i was goth before goth was 'cool'... before it became emo. emo sucks!! down with emo! (though some of the music isnt so bad.)
Posted by: sin | November 20, 2006 10:37 PM