2003-04-09 - 1:02 pm
I wonder if people think I'm indie or punk or emo or whatever because I wear about twelve 1" pins on my jacket. I've always prided myself for not being stuck under one of those stereotyped generalizations but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm exactly what Austin says: so indie that I don't even realize it.
When I was fifteen people thought I was different and I hope six years later people still think that. I don't want to lopped into a group of people who all look the same and think the same. I'd like to think I'm too strange for that.
Though one thing I've noticed is that we (kids between 12-25 or whatever) are the only ones that notice if someone is "indie" or "emo" or "punk" because we're the ones that created those stigmas. It's all so fucking stupid, really.
I hate labels and scenes and genres. I'm trying my hardest to weed them out from my mental vocabulary, along with a lot of other things. I'm tired of examining people based on their shoes and their cuffed jeans. I'm tired of stupid shit like that determining who is cool and who isn't.
I look at my best friends and how different they are from each other and I love it. It's amazing to see all these different people and knowing that I connected with each of them in different ways. And it isn't based on appearances or music taste or politics, but rather compassion, humour, intelligence and creativity.
Christ, I don't even know why I started talking about this. I gotta get to school. Heh.
