This was actually my english speaking piece but I figured it might make an alright blog post so here you go. :)
It took me a very long time to think of something to talk about for this. But eventually, I came up with an idea. Sheep. Don’t get me
started on sheep. Just in case you’re wondering, I’m not talking about actual,
woolly sheep that just stand in fields minding their own business; I’m talking
about the people who follow the crowd like they are sheep. I mean, they have no
personality, no individuality. It annoys me beyond anything else in the world.
I mean, it doesn’t bug me so much that they follow these trends,
because, if you’re honest, everyone has followed a trend at some point in their
life. It’s just those people who follow every single trend and spend a lot of
their time finding out what the current trend is and buying new things in order
to follow these trends. I mean, what is the point?
Why would you waste your time buying clothes and following trends
when you could be out having fun? Life is too short to waste it looking for a top
as a wise woman once said. I suppose the reason people do it is so that they
“fit in”. But what is fitting in….what does it mean? Because everyone dressing
the same, listening to the same music, doing the same stupid craze doesn’t seem
like fitting in to me. And how can you “fit in”? Everyone is different so why
would you try and be the same as everyone else? I don’t understand it, to be
honest.
I suppose a lot of people do it because of peer pressure. Teenage
smoking is a perfect example of this because as soon as one person does it,
then everyone thinks it is “cool” and are pressured into smoking by their
friends. People may say that this isn’t true, but if you found a group of
friends who smoked with one person who doesn’t, then I bet you that, eventually,
this person will be a smoker, also. I do feel sorry for people who end up in
these situations but, on the other hand, they should have enough strength in
them to say no. I know that I would.
One of my best friends ended up in a similar situation to this.
She lives in a care home, where every child that lives there is a smoker and,
funnily enough, she is now a smoker. She also changes her hairstyle and fashion
sense constantly and is, to be honest, a completely different person to what
she used to be. This is a perfect example of how peer pressure can change a
person and, if I’m honest with you, I was quite disappointed with her when it
happened because I thought she was better than that and was clever enough not
to give in to peer pressure.
If you think this only happens at schools, then you are wrong.
Adults also seem to have the need to be the same as everyone else. Especially,
mother’s for some reason. You know, those ones in the playground always
gossiping and doing the exact same thing. Also, you see men and woman alike walking
to work in suits and ties with bland expressions on their faces. No feeling, no
nothing, just emptiness. As they say, the lights are on but no-one is home.
This also happens at parties, all the girls
wearing the same dresses or at least the same style of dresses. I mean, what
happened to good, old-fashioned dress, not one that everyone else is wearing.
But what do I know?
Another thing
that people seem to follow is these stupid trends. For example, the cinnamon
challenge, Salt and Ice Challenge, planking, the list goes on. I don’t
understand why people do these things. Forgive me if I’m wrong but, why would
you do something which hurts or is uncomfortable? I really don’t understand it
and don’t see the point.
I’m not saying
that I’m not a sheep, because I think that I am. Everyone is in some sense.
There is always something that you follow or do the same as someone else. I
mean even being indie isn’t indie anymore because everyone is “indie”. I just
hope that one day we will all stop following the crowd and uniqueness will be
more evident in everyone.
