They say youth is wasted on the young and I agree. Also as many of us are living an extended youth mindset we can be considered to be wasting our whole lives. Traditionally(the main part of my perspective) each stage of life is supposed to give its own prestige, greater understanding, increased wisdom, increased discipline, increased classiness, and just overall increased coolness. These increases come with a full understanding of, and setting ones self apart from the previous stage that was just upgraded. That is speaking traditional…1950s, skip backwards over the industrial age to the Victorian era, skip over colonial times back to Feudalism. I skipped be cause the transition periods in between, involved growing pains that threw a lot of traditional behavior out to make space for massive growth.
Get to the point already, right. Basically don’t be a weirdo. I was trying not to be offensive but I am trying to help. Being different is a natural occurrence and we have to love ourselves the way we are made. Other differences are not innate or natural and are manifestations of our attempts to self-medicate our inner issues.
One thing I have recently learned is to NEVER make a permanent decision in response to a temporary issue. Suicide is at the most extreme end of this statement. Close to suicide is drug abuse in its many forms. Not so much, but still bad are negative thoughts about yourself. Many negative thoughts can be attributed to not accepting oneself, so that’s why it is so important to know that you are…important.
Now how does all of that relate to Pop and Sub culture. Pop culture and sub culture are the same things, momentary. So you cant make a permanent decision around a temporary thing as stated before. Look what happened to the tramp stamp of the late 1990s? As you grow you may not want to date yourself based on a pop culture or subculture permanent mark.
If you ask yourself whether a decision I am going to make will be ok five years later looking back, then you are probably safe. Even if you are in a bad space emotionally or otherwise, that is a temporary condition, believe me. If you are in a great place that can potentially be temporary as I’m sure the tramp stamp was fun for the first three years but that was not part of a five year plan. Fads come and go so often that I won’t get into specifics, as we all have to analyze what we can live with and we always have to live with ourselves.
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