I'm watching One Tree Hill season 4 (while hating my homework, and getting grumpy about something that i really have no right to get pissed off about). Currently, it's the episode where 'an hour can change your life'. I like this episode for my own weird reasons.
But what i want to talk about is the very first exercise that their English teacher makes them do in this episode. He makes everyone describe everyone else in one word. He gets the usual array of things; nice, popular, funny, smart... Then the teacher set some new rules. You had to describe everyone using one of the following five words; jock, prom queen, geek, loner, 'friendly' (re: slut). That makes things so much harder.
I'm not a jock. And i'm not 'friendly'. I don't think i'm a prom queen, either. I'm not a textbook geek. So am i a loner?
The point of the episode was that, once you leave high school, you can re-invent yourself as anything you like. If you were a geek in high school, you could become a jock at university. Or whatever.
I was probably 'the funny one', or 'the innocent one' at school. At church, i'm probably 'the weird one', or maybe 'the annoyingly organised one'. At home, i'm 'the troublesome one'. At stateswim, i'm 'the one the boss doesn't like'. At uni, i might be 'the one that people don't know really well', or 'the chubby one' or maybe 'the one that works in a church'.
I've left high school. But i don't really think that i've shed the image i had there and become something more, something better. I'd like to be 'the pretty one', 'the smart one', or maybe 'the one who's a great singer'. I'd like to be 'the one who can write', 'the happy one', or 'the one who's the love of *****'s life'. I'd like to be 'the one who her parents don't laugh at', or 'the one who's acing uni'. I'd like to be someone that other people admire, or want to spend time with.
The end of high school didn't mark the end of the time where people stereotype me. I'm still not the person that i want to be. So, i assume that other people don't see me positively either. I don't have the slightest idea who i am... which makes it interesting to spend a day in my shoes.
I know that a lot of my philosophical musings come from One Tree Hill, or whatever other TV show i'm watching at the time. But that doesn't make it any less profound (haha), or any less throught provoking.
In the end, it all comes down to me wanting to be the person who's free to be herself, and that herself is a person that she loves to be.
But what i want to talk about is the very first exercise that their English teacher makes them do in this episode. He makes everyone describe everyone else in one word. He gets the usual array of things; nice, popular, funny, smart... Then the teacher set some new rules. You had to describe everyone using one of the following five words; jock, prom queen, geek, loner, 'friendly' (re: slut). That makes things so much harder.
I'm not a jock. And i'm not 'friendly'. I don't think i'm a prom queen, either. I'm not a textbook geek. So am i a loner?
The point of the episode was that, once you leave high school, you can re-invent yourself as anything you like. If you were a geek in high school, you could become a jock at university. Or whatever.
I was probably 'the funny one', or 'the innocent one' at school. At church, i'm probably 'the weird one', or maybe 'the annoyingly organised one'. At home, i'm 'the troublesome one'. At stateswim, i'm 'the one the boss doesn't like'. At uni, i might be 'the one that people don't know really well', or 'the chubby one' or maybe 'the one that works in a church'.
I've left high school. But i don't really think that i've shed the image i had there and become something more, something better. I'd like to be 'the pretty one', 'the smart one', or maybe 'the one who's a great singer'. I'd like to be 'the one who can write', 'the happy one', or 'the one who's the love of *****'s life'. I'd like to be 'the one who her parents don't laugh at', or 'the one who's acing uni'. I'd like to be someone that other people admire, or want to spend time with.
The end of high school didn't mark the end of the time where people stereotype me. I'm still not the person that i want to be. So, i assume that other people don't see me positively either. I don't have the slightest idea who i am... which makes it interesting to spend a day in my shoes.
I know that a lot of my philosophical musings come from One Tree Hill, or whatever other TV show i'm watching at the time. But that doesn't make it any less profound (haha), or any less throught provoking.
In the end, it all comes down to me wanting to be the person who's free to be herself, and that herself is a person that she loves to be.
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