On Maya

On Maya

So this one will definitely be read by the subject and she will probably clap her hands together in her happy aww gesture.

Ignore the fact that that is in the passive. But in all seriousness, I will say it again, Maya is the single most feminine person I know, and I mean that in the very best way possible. As she thinks she knows but actually it’s truer than she might realize, Maya is beautiful. And not just because she has high aesthetic standards for herself. But that honestly is beside the point because Maya is wonderful because of how she always cares about the emotional well being of her friends, and because she always makes a point of trying to be positive, and she is funny and smart and all the happy things that make her so fun to be around. Like, if she had a weakness, it would be caring too much. But we all can live with that. I feel bad because this probably isn’t new because I’ve told her a lot of this before, but it’s true. Oh also she sings like a baby angel. Only happy to listen to. Sidenote, why are all of my friends amazing singers? So there’s that. If there were more people like Maya the world would be a much warmer and fuzzier place.

This is not my most well written piece. Huh. Sentiment remains.

So please, can we please fund NASA?

Timing

I want to take this moment adress this and how I feel it's an issue of misplaced anger. Also, this is easier for me to write about than Hamlet write now. So bear with me.

The first thing that got me, here, is the use of the word "you're" in the second cause of each phrase. It's not an issue, apparently, of "people think you are" or "your most common label is," but simply "you are" fake, a slut, whatever. That's absurd. Someone calling you something does not make it so. I may be being nit-picky, but the difference between hearing a label placed on you and letting it define you is immense.

I don't know why this in particular set me off but I feel like the spirit of passivity embedded in this complaint is actually too much to bear. There's a step in there that's missing. You act some way, members of a society find some way to belittle you, and suddenly you become whatever they label you as? It doesn't have to work that way. Fine, you're sick of snap judgements and trying to impress people? Don't talk about how everything is so fucked up and we need to have more time having fun- talk about how people need to be nice to each other.

Think before you speak. Give people the benefit of the doubt. Try to bite down the snap judgments of other people that make you feel better about yourself. I know, listening to people tell you you're something can be hard not to listen to, but we can try. This is a we, everyone since ever has dealt with it, and it's not a problem of our generation specifically.

I guess that's why this really made me mad. Because our generation doesn't suck. Our generation is pushing the boundaries of technology use day by day, and we're becoming more involved in our world as we get more connected to it. Look what happened to SOPA. We killed it. That was, in large part, us. So chin up. Things aren't so bad.

I mean come on. We're the god damn Harry Potter generation, motherfuckers.

the thing that pisses me off the most is how fucked up our generation is. You wear make-up, you're fake. You don't wear make up, You're ugly. You have sex, you're a whore. You don't have sex, you're square. If you have curves, you're fat. If you don't have curves, you're anorexic. You talk to boys, you're a slut. You don't talk to boys, you're a loser. Everything is so fucking irrelevant. We spend most of our time trying to impress others when really we should concentrate on being ourselves and having fun. Our generation fucking sucks.

Whoa. The MLA has officially devised a standard format to cite tweets in an academic paper. Sign of the times.

I'm sorry you had a bad day/week! We are SO CLOSE to college. We can't give up now! And those lovely feelings of being with people just as nerdy and weird and awesome as we are and learning for learning's sake will be back! Never lose hope! You are inches away from the finish line! Find some nutella, watch a bad movie/read a bad book, and take a long shower. I guarantee it will make you feel better!

Nutella and a book. You know how right you are :) Thank you dearly. I hope you're doing well. College is indeed coming and I'm excited for you to be accepted to all your magical places.

KRISTEN!!