I'm on Financial Aid, Bitch
Yeah, there's a facebook group at my school (and probably many others) named that. I'm sorry, am I the only who thinks that is going too far?? I know I'm the only one who thinks the "I went to Public School, Bitch" or "I went to Private School, Strumpet" groups are dumb cause everyone else in the world is in one of the two (or the third "I went to both" option). But this just seems so much worse. Imagine what a TOOL someone would be if they started the "I'm not on financial aid, you poor bastards" group. I dunno, I just think the whole thing is dumb- what is someone proving by being in that group?
So you were born under different circumstances than another person. We're all here now, why don't we just try to be who we are. There's another facebook group called "F*** You Facebook and Your Electronic Partitioning and Exhibition of My Social World." Up until this point I thought it was just another ridiculous group that people could join, but now that's really how I feel. I mean it's fun to be in a group of people who share an interest in a band, author, political view, subject, or anything else like that. And ok, people talk about it so much, why SHOULDN'T there be groups for public and private schools. But I think it needs to end there.
People shouldn't be categorized by every aspect of their life. I don't want to have to include or exclude myself from a group that relates to the status of the family that I was born into. By the way this has nothing to do with the amount of financial aid/scholarship money that I recieve, which frankly, I think is none of anyone besides my family's business.
Sure, we all talk about that kid who's super-loaded (which probably isn't nice of me to do either, but I still do it) and has all this ridiculous stuff, but I remember once talking to a girl who gave me a really refreshing perspective on it. She was a fairly "spoiled" child, but this was her defense: She was BORN into this wealthy family, not by her own choice (duh). Her parents worked hard and made money. They (presumably) love their daughter and so they spend money on her and buy her nice things (like a new BMW). What is she supposed to do? Say no, I don't WANT a car? Of course she's not going to do that. It's not her fault her parents have money and want to buy her nice things, so she was understandably upset when people were mean to her about it.
I mean you don't often think about it like that, but it makes sense, right? Maybe I'm just being oversensitive. I just think having a facebook group like that serves no purpose. Ok. That's all.
So you were born under different circumstances than another person. We're all here now, why don't we just try to be who we are. There's another facebook group called "F*** You Facebook and Your Electronic Partitioning and Exhibition of My Social World." Up until this point I thought it was just another ridiculous group that people could join, but now that's really how I feel. I mean it's fun to be in a group of people who share an interest in a band, author, political view, subject, or anything else like that. And ok, people talk about it so much, why SHOULDN'T there be groups for public and private schools. But I think it needs to end there.
People shouldn't be categorized by every aspect of their life. I don't want to have to include or exclude myself from a group that relates to the status of the family that I was born into. By the way this has nothing to do with the amount of financial aid/scholarship money that I recieve, which frankly, I think is none of anyone besides my family's business.
Sure, we all talk about that kid who's super-loaded (which probably isn't nice of me to do either, but I still do it) and has all this ridiculous stuff, but I remember once talking to a girl who gave me a really refreshing perspective on it. She was a fairly "spoiled" child, but this was her defense: She was BORN into this wealthy family, not by her own choice (duh). Her parents worked hard and made money. They (presumably) love their daughter and so they spend money on her and buy her nice things (like a new BMW). What is she supposed to do? Say no, I don't WANT a car? Of course she's not going to do that. It's not her fault her parents have money and want to buy her nice things, so she was understandably upset when people were mean to her about it.
I mean you don't often think about it like that, but it makes sense, right? Maybe I'm just being oversensitive. I just think having a facebook group like that serves no purpose. Ok. That's all.