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Belief. Believing. To believe.
What do I believe? What’s my moral?
My core moral belief is “Don’t be an idiot”. Yet, it changed to prevent negativity to “Be smart.” It is essentially the same thing.
Alright, even though this moral sounds silly and basic, it makes the most sense to me. After all, every other moral can be boiled down in this one, simple belief. If you make it your life’s goal to make logical decisions that have little to no bad consequences, then your life can be as efficient as possible. Sure, making unplanned decisions can be fun, but if you don’t think to yourself “Wow. This is incredibly dumb” before you do something that is, well, incredibly dumb, then that leads to you actually fulfilling yourself as an idiot. As the saying goes “it’s better to stay quiet and make smart decision which let people think you’re an idiot, then to open your mouth and make stupid decisions, thus confirming people’s suspicions”. Even though that sounds cliche, it’s an effective, conscious and logical way to live your life.
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So. Stereotypes. Cliques. Yes, they exist. And even if we have them at Avondale, they are not as prevalent-at least I don’t notice them. Some people suggest that we “eliminate cliques”. The problem with that is-that’s never going to happen. Sure, you can be nice to everyone, but there are always going to be people who hang out more because they play the same sport or live in the same neighborhood or join the same club. The elimination of cliques is impossible because people are always going to form groups based on who they see more. It’s best to just not judge others based on their looks or activities or what they do or say. Denby portrays high school as a shark tank- at least that’s how the movies (and this clip) show it. But it’s not. I’ve never encountered it and through reading most of these posts, neither has anyone else.
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Ok so I’ll just say it right now: the first thing that you’re thinking is “What is up his nose?” Got that out of your system? Great. Now let’s analyze it to death.
Pictures are memories from the past. But from this picture, all you can tell is that this kid runs cross country. And he isn’t even very good at it. What you don’t see is that this kid hardly even ran cross country. He did other sports better and was only doing cross country to help out his school and friends. You don’t see that an earlier race in the season almost killed him. You don’t see that he’s got math homework due the next day or a brother who is dying to see him when he gets home. All that’s visible is basically a guy in a tank top with an itchy nose.
And so pictures capture a moment in time when we hope to be doing something amazing. That way, we can look back and examine how tough or happy or excited something made them. Pictures are good. I like pictures. They help us remember events that we would otherwise forget.
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Rebel Without A Cause
Alright. So I didn’t really understand the jist of this movie until I thought about it for a while, but Rebel Without A Cause was actually pretty accurate to teens today. Granted, we aren’t as stupid and attempt to drive our cars off a cliff like the movie portrays, but we still do dumb things like texting and driving or racing. And our emotions aren’t as exaggerated as they are in the movie, but teens still freak out about the smallest and most random things, like the fact that someone they were seeing for a couple months broke up with them or that they don’t have the latest outfit. I didn’t particularly like the movie, but I still agree with what it’s trying to say.
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(via idlevault)
