Timing

Cellars made me think about the difference between ages and the relationships with those differences. I am now a year ahead of the current seniors, who will always seem like "the juniors" to me and I'm a year behind everyone who was in the class of 2008. Will it always seem like we're separated by that one year in time. Like I'm perpetually ahead of the juniors and behind the older people I know. Then I look at my current job situation. I'm a seventeen year old girl with only a high school diploma under my belt and I make 10.50 an hour which seems great but pathetic for the reason that many of my much older colleagues make the same or less. There is nothing wrong with being in a job as opposed to a career for the rest of your life if that is what you want to do with your life, but I'm so glad that I'm going to college and I'll be having a career that will bring more of an opportunity than that of a normal job that pays the bills and doesn't bring much of a sense of satisfaction. I love my job a lot and I get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but I don't want to serve people the rest of my life. I want to go up the ladder of life and leave the work that I do now to the seventeen year old high school graduates of tomorrow. I saw a lot of amazing people that I'm truly going to miss when i go to college, but it also made me think about the parts of high school that I hated, the exclusivity of the "popular" crowd I didn't want to be included in, and the degradation of the young people in our society. Why young women want to dance and dress and act in a way that makes people view them as cheap meat is beyond me. I don't want to judge them, but its so sad to see girls so young conforming to a social norm of what it means to be attractive. Then I see girls like Darcy who I thought were dressed sexily, but appropriately. She looked great and beautiful and in control without screaming to the world that she hot. I have hope for the future of my generation, but only if those of us who are intelligent rise above the caste system in our society and remember to be individuals.