May 18, 2012
People always say, "It doesn't matter what you look like, it's what's on the inside that counts."
Excuse me, but what a load of rubbish!
Everything is based on what you look like! What section of a shop you work in, how boys react to you, how people treat you. It's all about the model look. Trying to be thin. Trying to be the rumoured goddess. Trying to be barbie.
Look, I'm not 5'10, blonde, skinny with a large arse and breasts, and I know I could improve the ways I look. I know I could lose a few kilos, fix my teeth and posture, grow out my hair out and whatever. I know this.
Everyone knows theres something they can fix if they really wanted to, though it doesn't necessarily mean they should.I mean, going to the gym with your friends and getting fit can be fun but girls at school are opting to smoke to resist the urge to eat. They're vomiting up the few bites of the sandwich they had, they're becoming barbie.
We used to think it was just girls, but now guys are constantly at the gym trying to be the Rock or whatever.
It's a load of rubbish.
Perfection is in, and there is nothing wrong with trying to look your best but there is a boundary.
Barbie and Ken, you have destroyed society.
To the magazines, you have destroyed society.
Thanks for that.
Posted by Claudia Claudia.
May 18, 2012
I thought I should write about each one of the things in my 50 things list, as one of my friends pointed out I should. So; here goes.
Number one: Make a group of friends which I will know for the rest of my life.
This is a must. Friends are the family you choose, and they know all your dirty secrets. It makes sense to have a group to grow old with.
In primary school, I had two best friends. There names were Liss and Ana, and I thought I was going to know those girls forever. At the end of year 6, we all went to different high schools and eventually fell out of contact. Now, all they are is Facebook updates and the occasional bump into one another.
I absolutely love all the friends I have made since leaving primary school, but we finish high school in just over a year, and I know we'll get lazy and lose touch.
I desperately don't want that to happen.
Yet, I know friends come and go. The quote, "friends for a season, friends for a reason" comes to mind. To make a group of friends to know forever though? To graduate high school with? To go to Uni with? To have by your side when you get married? To egg you on to take that chance? To grow old and be on the front porch gossiping and knitting with?
That's priceless, and something I so desperately want to have
Posted by Claudia Claudia.
May 18, 2012
Even the police and PDHPE teachers know they cant tell teenagers not to drink, they can only them of the risks and educate them in the best possible way to handle the situation. However, I still think that is not enough. That is stupid. They should try to scare us so bad, that we wont dare to attempt the "underage party scene."
When we were 15/16, we got invited to our friend's 18th. Since that day, I found I was surrounded by people who were heavily into the party scene.
They were sneaking out every weekend, and going to parties of strangers, drinking heavily and being swayed into the drug scene.
I just dont understand it.
We've spent our entire lives being spoken to by parents, teachers, the police, social/youth worker and numerous other forms of guest speakers telling us stay the hell away from drinking, from drugs, from succumbing to peer pressure.
Yet, I sit in class listening to people around me talking about how "trashed" they got, and how hardcore the pills they took on the weekend were.
Are you seriously that bloody stupid?
Think about your health and dignity.
Posted by Claudia Claudia.
May 18, 2012
Travel is a method of escape, and, boy, do I want to run. The term fernweh is German, and means "being homesick for a place you have never been."
The phrase sums up my existence.
In 2011, I went on a school trip to France (I am from Australia) and the experience blew me away. This country was centuries, maybe even a millennium older then the country I am from. It made everything I'd grown up being surrounded by, places like Hyde Park and Circular Quay, which I'd thought to be the epitome of greatness, were absolutely nothing compared to century old cathedrals, the Musee D'Orsay and the Eiffel Tower.
Ever since I have craved being surrounded by amazing architecture, and amazing things, like the Northern Lights or the Taj Mahal.
There are so many places I want to go.
I want to get lost.
Posted by Claudia Claudia.
May 18, 2012
You will learn very quickly I hate hypocrites, and I try so very hard not to be one, however, in some situations it is almost impossible. My most hated hypocritical statements are in relation to a man or woman's sexual orientation; specifically if that man or woman is homosexual.
These statements are;
Heterosexual Girls: "OMG. I've ALWAYS wanted a gay best friend. But, ew, lesbians are gross."
Heterosexual Guys:"Dude, lesbians are so hot. Oi homo, get lost you freak."
Seriously, are you people so self centered and moronic to think that if someone around you that is homosexual will be automatically be in love with you? Most importantly, how can one bother you and not the other? Its the same thing! This guy I know and I were talking about it and I asked him about it. He said, "I know that not every gay guy is going to be in love with me, but it is the possibility that a guy could think about doing that kind of thing with you. And the lesbian thing, most guys fantasize about that."
I appreciated his honesty. My response: "Trust me, not every girl who likes guys thinks about doing that kind of stuff with their guy friend. Why should it be any different with a guy friend who likes guys as well?"
That had him stumped.
I don't understand the double standard hypocrisy. I really don't. However, that just may be because my parents have brought me up to love everyone equally and to treat people as you want to be treated. That, and the fact Ihave a few homosexual friends and I have seen the emotional pain it has put them through.
It's not fair
Posted by Claudia Claudia.
May 18, 2012
I was watching the second last episode of Dance Academy on Monday. They were having a memorial for one of the main characters, who had died in a car accident. He had a list of 50 things he wanted to do before he died, and I decided I should post mine
Fifty Things I Want to do Before I Die;
- Make a group of friends that I will know for the rest of my life
- Have a movie style romance, at least once.
- Stand up to the bullies, at least once
- Be the first woman in my family to go to University
- Stop caring what other people think
- Finish what I start
- Go to a stereotype American party
- Meet my idol
- Make an inspiring speech in a tough time
- Travel
- Live in a loft
- Rent a kombi van and live in it for a year
- Go to an amazing concert where after I have a severe case of Post Concert Depression
- Lose weight
- Surprise everyone by doing something out of character
- Make my parents proud
- Do lots of charity work
- Organize protests
- A Kiss in the rain
- Finish the movie script I am writing with the help of Cameron and Noi
- Get over my fear of heights
- Kick butt in school
- Laugh more
- Speak my mind more
- Attend a Dawn Service
- Get my RSA
- Get a tattoo
- surprise myself
- See the Northern Lights
Obviously, the list isn't finished. These are the things I want to so far
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