Fiftythird

Do you remember when it was bad to rebel? Neither do I. I remember when it was cool to rebel, but now it's more of a fashion statement. To rebel is to be trendy, so then is that really being rebellious? I think not. I think that if you wanted to be rebellious in today's world, you'd have to um... well one of the things you could do would be to not own a cell phone or blackberry, or other communication device of the like. That's probably what it would be to rebel, be anti-technology.

I don't have a cell phone or anything like that, so that makes me a little rebellious. I suppose where this subject came from is that I wish skateboarding wasn't a fashion statement or trendy because then it would be less expensive.

I went to this one skate shop the other day and everything there cost so much more than if you got it somewhere like Walmart. I know that part of the problem is that you're paying for the brand names, but the main reason that's a problem is because the rich kids are the ones who are setting the trends, and they can afford to pay a lot for the brand names so the companies are taking advantage of this and charging too much money. There was a bunnyhug I wanted to buy and it was $120, and the pair of shorts I wanted to buy was $70. That's most of my paycheck just for a bunnyhug and a pair of shorts! And they were really sweet plaid shorts too, but I mean really sweet. Like I would have bought them if they weren't so freakin' expensive.

Sigh.

Another thing about being rebellious is attitude, but angsty kids are annoying, the rude richies are ...well rude, and the fakies are ...fake. But you can't really be happy all the time because people are too annoying, dumb, unobservant, and obnoxious. Man, it seems like you have to be some kind of... non technological, happy, polite, neatly dressed person- I guess what it means to be rebellious in this day and age is to be a Mennonite or Hutterite.

Dang.

I guess I'll just stick with being a little "trendy" for now. But at least I don't have a cell phone! That's gotta count for something. Oh, and I've never owned a video game system. Um... I listen to my mother. I still use the word mother. I guess I'm kinda half trendy, half not.

Okay well here's the WOTD:

Pennon - (n) 1. a long narrow ribbonlike flag borne on a lance 2. wing

And the haiku for the day is:

Picking raspberries

Enclaved in the dark forest

Don't take too many.