gah!
You know what else really annoys me? Older people who insist on acting like younger people. I know I sound horribly ageist, but let me explain.
Sometimes I get really p155ed off when parentals/other older relatives/teachers/tutors/lecturers try and be 'down with da yoof'. It's as ridiculous as the 'ghetto' accents and gestures that middle class white kids at Balliol seem to have adopted. I know that they have the right to live however they want, but I sometimes feel like they are encroaching on my territory somehow. Stop trying to be like me, it's not going to make me like you more!
For instance, my dad seems to think that if he starts to listen to the Arcade Fire or Badly Drawn Boy that this will improve our relationship, because it's showing he's hip and in tune with my young interests. No, actually it just looks really sad, and is irritating. You're encroaching on something that's mine! Go away and listen to your Clannad CDs, this is my music!
Or when my mum says things like "oh, that's very funky." No, it's cringeworthy.
Being young is difficult if the older people around you are trying to steal your stuff. Can't we just be given a bit of space and be allowed to be 'rebellious' and 'different' in our small ways by ourself. If you start moving in to our culture, it doesn't leave anythin for us. And I think young people need that space to differentiate themselves from their elders. People complain all the time that kids are becoming like grown-ups (see the end bit of publicandecoy's Sugababes post, the comments), but I also think that part of the problem is that grown-ups are becoming like kids.
Yes, I know this makes me sound about 13, but I had another annoying phone-call with my dad last night and need to get this off my chest.
Damn you all, the hoodies and underground indie music are ours, you can't have them!
xxx
Sometimes I get really p155ed off when parentals/other older relatives/teachers/tutors/lecturers try and be 'down with da yoof'. It's as ridiculous as the 'ghetto' accents and gestures that middle class white kids at Balliol seem to have adopted. I know that they have the right to live however they want, but I sometimes feel like they are encroaching on my territory somehow. Stop trying to be like me, it's not going to make me like you more!
For instance, my dad seems to think that if he starts to listen to the Arcade Fire or Badly Drawn Boy that this will improve our relationship, because it's showing he's hip and in tune with my young interests. No, actually it just looks really sad, and is irritating. You're encroaching on something that's mine! Go away and listen to your Clannad CDs, this is my music!
Or when my mum says things like "oh, that's very funky." No, it's cringeworthy.
Being young is difficult if the older people around you are trying to steal your stuff. Can't we just be given a bit of space and be allowed to be 'rebellious' and 'different' in our small ways by ourself. If you start moving in to our culture, it doesn't leave anythin for us. And I think young people need that space to differentiate themselves from their elders. People complain all the time that kids are becoming like grown-ups (see the end bit of publicandecoy's Sugababes post, the comments), but I also think that part of the problem is that grown-ups are becoming like kids.
Yes, I know this makes me sound about 13, but I had another annoying phone-call with my dad last night and need to get this off my chest.
Damn you all, the hoodies and underground indie music are ours, you can't have them!
xxx