so, i have a lot of "older" friends on Facebook. i grew up around people who are middle aged, plus the daughter of one of the couples. all this to say, my feed gets clogged with some interesting "forwards" or "shares" or whatever you want to call them. 2 of the trending ones have caught my attention. one is about how spanking is fine, doesn't hurt the kid, how people who learn the "switch dance" are better for it. fine. that's cool. you are ok with spanking. i'm not going to look down on you for it (although the budding psychologist in me wants to cite some research...).i wasn't spanked as a child, although most of my friends question that decision on my parents' part. i turned out fine... well, interesting... however you want to take that. i'm not dead, diseased, or incarcerated, so i guess i don't completely fail. the other is about the street light being your curfew and a bunch of other sentimental stuff. and of course we have the self-righteous 90's kids... FYI, i remember enough of the 90's to miss them, so i'm not completely in the dark. great, you have pride in your generation. i applaud you for your self-confidence. but don't project your self-confidence onto me in the form of constantly telling me how sucky my music is or how disney channel stars don't have talent. mind you, i am not defending miley cyrus or one direction or anything, just making a point.
here's the deal: i'm happy i grew up watching rugrats all grown up and zoey 101. i'm happy that i went to a few jump5 concerts when i was a pre-teen, as well as a hilary duff one. i still sing jesse mccartney when i have self-esteem issues (i AM a beautiful soul, darnit!). i had a crush on phil of the future, and cried at the end of the lizzie mcguire movie. (confession, i had a bit of a girl-crush on hilary duff)
i must reming 90's kids of a few things, though: backstreet boys, new kids on the block, n'sync, spice girls... you get where i'm going with this, i hope. (and why in the world did you kill off kurt cobain?) and to the older ones: men without hats, abba (debatable), men at work, village people.... (i'm only citing music because i know a small amount about music, as opposed to movies, TV, or random trends, of which i know close to nothing)
back to the first 2 trends: times change. that's the bottom line, i guess. in 1 AD, kids could go in a caravan to go live with relatives for a few years. whatever. women got married of by their fathers for political reasons. cool. people also got sliced down the middle and dropped through trap doors, their innards falling on people far below. (it's really cool to look through those trapdoors, though.) culture CHANGES. not always for the better, not always for the worse (probably improper grammar, sorry mommy). and we have to accept that. i'm probably going to hate the music my kids listen to, as well as the shows they watch and the toys they play with (once they exercise their free-will. till then it's organic fairy dolls, disney movies, avatar (last airbender and legend of korea, not that pocahontas junk), and the fray). but i'm going to suffer through it with a smile on my face, because what some people don't understand about culture, especially in kids, is that we begin to identify with it so deeply, that bits of it get stuck to our DNA (not really, just an illustration). when you insult anberlin, i hurt a little bit. and when i make cracks about the beatles, my mom looks a little mopey (nothing against the beatles, sometimes i just have to retaliate against the snide comments about my katy perry CD).
bottom line: my name is abbey, i was born in 1995, and i may or may not have a camp rock poster above my bed. so deal with it and shut your face.
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