Keeping up with society.

ofcourse you're gonna get a lot of posts that tell you to 'suck it up', but truth be told i know exactly what you're saying. it's really shitty man, i know, to grow up being expected to accept that you have to live below other's, to a degree. thankfully, usually the kids that get everyone they want are more ed up than the kids that don't.

Yeah, I understand. I was kinda spoiled growing up so I feel like I was kinda babied growing up. But, I started working at my job last summer when I turned 18 and worked my ass off. Getting older sucks but it has it perks like making your own money and owning your own things, I bought my PS3 and my Car yeah. I love that.

Life gets better, just bare with it for a while. Your parents do sound a bit cheap though, $400 bucks isn't jack today.

not everyone can 'go against the grain'. a lot of people can't take the kind of psychological pressure that being different than everyone else can induce.

Get a part time or full time job at Hollisgay like I did, make money, take advantage of their 50% discounts, make more money, meet some girls, and buy the stuff you want, when you want.

No I was in no way anti-social in high school...in fact almost my entire class was friends, good friends. I just didn't think our standards are that low now. I had no clue high school had a uniform. I guess it's a matter of intelligence and acceptance. We had a few narrow minded kids, but for the most part no one really cared about crap like that.

I see. Sorry to be so quick on the gun there. To many kids watch these MTV style shows of rich spoiled kids and other similar scenarios and suddenly they need to be the same. I didnt even know what Hollister was until last year where everyone had their shirts. I thinks theyre just to much of an emocial preppy spoiled baby epidemic amung young people, while kids with not-so-rich families and old school family values are a victim of this opression.

I'll be honest; loser kids dont like me because they think Im to cool cause I play football and hang with cool kids. Cool kids dont think Im cool cause, the point of this topic, Im not up to par. Im just a friendless joke. I havent gotten invited to one birthday party this year, and I hear about a lot of extravagent sweet sixteens going on. And girls, never talk to me. Even some loser genious guy who talks with a lisp has a girlfriend. And that guy is probably my best friend. I hang around the house all day, just fueling more hate between me and my parents. Im not smart, and I dont have any money. I live in a hick town where there is not many job opportunities. I just think, that if I chase the "Gold" Ill be more accepted. The thing is, its not just society: I really think an ipod is awesome, and It would help me enjoy life. The sames with the Wii. I think its amazing inovation. I do think that AE and Hollister shirts are really nice and cool looking. However, I do have a cellphone that works when I need it to, and it even has a (small, non flash or zoom) camera.
I think one of the reasons that I collect wrestler figures (the reason I came to this site) is cause I want to relive my toy infested childhood, because my current life is a wreck.
Another thing I dont understand in society, is myspace. I had one, and I only had about 5 friends but they never talk or respond back. and all the comments I ever got said "your gay" or had some random sex joke graphic. I dont hate it because of sex offenders, i hate it because people think its cool.
Maybe its just natural, encoded into human DNA, to want more and what other people have. I can't overcome these urges though. I know that bitching about it

Im glad this board has a lounge, so I can vent my problems. Thanks everyone for reading.




Hm. Im not letting it become so. Im just a realist. And I feel like going through life and enjoying it as much as possible. I see you get joy out of making fun of 15 year old kids.
Let me ask you this; did you just post something negative cause most other responses here were positive? I know what you common internet folk are like. This aint my first rodeo.

There's no hope for you. Not without a Wii, of course. You should just throw in the towel now. How could someone live without a $45 shirt in today's society?

Dad should beat you senseless next time. You trendy teenagers and your cellular phones are exactly what's wrong with this world. You sound the most ungrateful kid in the world, caught up in a jealous rage that you don't have any Ambercrombie & Fitch t-shirts. Get a life. There are more important things out there than the latest fads.

God, now I'm ranting...

Just as I suspected, the negative people come in the night.



Yeah, yeah your just adding fuel to the fire. But see if I really care.

you're honestly such a douchebag. this kid obviously doesn't 'cry'...he's not crying in here. all you do is insult him, i bolded it just to show. not necessary on your part at all, but ofcourse you feel more than inclined to vent at this kid..

and jesus, you'd say the same thing if he was two feet from you? so much for being a responsible adult, calling a 15 year old kid or whatever this dude's age is a bitch for feeling the EXACT same social pressures that everyone else feels, and instead of just letting them sit and piss him off more, decided to vice them in a suprisingly non-bitchy way.

truth be told post maker, you can listen to these guys talk about living above materialism and such, but we all succomb to it to a degree. or, apparently, you can end up like SYE, some douchebag who feels the need to put himself over anyone he disagrees with, and hulkamaniac, some old hulk hogan fan that's just disgusted at today's youth but actively participates in a forum for them..

i grew up in the hardest of hard families...below middle class, farmer in ontario. i didn't get goddam **** unless i worked for it. did it really get me that far ahead of anybody else, fill me up with lessons? no. it didn't. i honestly think the ones' saying that didn't have that hard of a childhood or else they'd know better about saying that kind of bull ****. if anything it made me realize how damn ugly the world actually is and how little people actually care about one another, which reminds me of these other poster's empathy towards you.