3 years has passed since my graduation - at this moment 3 years ago, I was coming home with joy with the accomplishment of completing my school career. But this is not the end of my education - I have been going to college for 3 years and I have learned a lot. Now I am finally learning stuff to get a job.
The world has changed a lot in the last 3 years and I can see the biggest change was in the Summer and Fall of 2009. It is not just my lifestyle, but there was a change in the world in general, especially the pop culture and the general view of the world.
While I was in high school, the pop culture was based more on things such as MySpace, reality TV, text messaging, iPods, hip-hop and bling bling, emo, etc, but about 2009 there has been a shift. You are actually seeing a more stronger pop culture and a more clean cut pop culture. The 2000s decade did not have a definitive pop culture - it was more of the continuation of the 1990s but more glamorized. Many 1990s things such as hip-hop and the internet, along with music downloading was blown out of portion. The 2010s has a different pop culture. I can see a comeback of teen idols such as Justin Beiber, Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, etc. which had started about 2009 - the Gen Y culture 1990s and 2000s culture has frittered and the next Generation Z pop culture started to come in. The first traces of a Generation Z pop culture started about 2007, actually maybe about 2004 if you really want to get technical, but the new generation of culture was starting to become full fledged about 2009.
I can see a different style of music and dress was coming in as well. Brighter colors, and more modest, conforming clothing was starting to become the standards. You don't have that many high school stereotypes, but it looks like there are more clothing based on interests such as video games and pop culture. The music was starting to change as well - country music was starting to become the norm, hip-hop was becoming more intellectual. These are fads that was starting about 2009 and going into the present.
I don't think college life was that bad but I look like the newer pop culture fits me than the older pop culture. I tend to be more conforming, clean cut, conservative which fits for the next generation of pop culture.
My life has changed for about the next 3 years and it looks like I am still in a period of confusion, but I am starting to get things figured out. I don't think I had much concept of who I was in high school and I was trying to find out who I was, but it didn't fit the picture. I didn't really completely fit a group and I was trying to be with a group, but I didn't really seem to agree with the many activities of the group.
I was trying to fit in with the other students and I did made some very good friends, and many of them are still my friends to these days, while some of the other people are just people that are starting to forget about. My true friends are basically the people that I think about now; that I care about now. The people I used to like a few years ago are now people I can care less about right now. My true friends are people that will understand me and get me, even when I change.
It is hard to make new friends in transition and everybody is changing and moving in their own directions. I am trying to move in my own direction as well. Relationships are important for me and I am trying to find a girl that will love me, but someday I will. Relationships was important for me in high school but I don't think many students can figure me out. But there was somebody that probably will love me.
There is a lot of change going on - I am getting a totally different belief system and value system, and I probably would of hung on to different people. I think high school would of been better - I think I am starting to see the world of what's going on and things are starting to connect. I don't think many things connected in high school and I don't think I had a very good self concept and I don't think I really had a very good perception on things. I was out in my own world and I probably didn't care -it seems like I was in a more of a fantasy world than I was in the real world. But I am almost getting things figured out and I am continuing to get some things figured out even now - I am changing a lot and I am changing for the better.
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