Looking Like One And Being One

What do you wear? What colour you always have? Accessories or not? What are those shoes? How do I fare compared to him/her? How do you walk? Sit down? Write? What's your speaking language? Analytic or thinking language? How do you carry your stuff? Who? What books do you read? Do you even read? These are some of the things we think about when we're outside our own. Let me ask you one important thing.

Who are you?

We’d probably know much of these questions, except for the last one. You’d see much trying to get into the fad of things, rather than answer the last question I just asked.

Look around you there are people who (dare I say it?) imitate just for the sake of fad. Yes, we all had that moment of weakness, wherein we buy into those apparel, accessories, appliance, gadgets, and other objects just because we thought of it as essential to our social status. Yes it might be, but not essential. Buying stuff that we don’t really understand what it means, does, or represents.

For example, the Coffee and Tea Drink Fad or Craze or Trend or whatever you might call it, they don’t really sell coffee or tea but they “Serve” their coffee and/or tea differently. If coffee or tea was really expensive, rare, or unique then even if without their luxurious spaces they would still be charging everyone the same expensive price. How about those people who call themselves the “Gangsta” or in their slang, “Gangzterz”; I have to admit those guys made an effort, but for the love of humanity PLEASE learn how to do it! Cap on the head, not oversized cap engulfing your head; and Large shirt, not a shirt that eats you up, wherein the sleeves of your “shirt” starts on your elbow and the actual shirt ends on your knees. There are a lot of these fads that our locals attempt to imitate but drastically fail into.

There’s also one matter I must and insist on pointing out. Please stop trying to look rich, because there’s no such thing as a “rich look”. Here I put side by side the “trying-hard” to the actual elite. To wear branded clothes, combine trending colours and styles, and use their electronic gadgets; all of which both would use daily, but the actual elite would NOT flaunt theirs. Simply put that, on a normal day, the trying-hard  would consciously wear his/her best(with in mind, the questions previously stated or more) and flaunt it to the world, while the actual elite just pulled out anything from his/her closet and drawers, and went out. Still, a few could differentiate on who’s who.

I say let us all move on from that ideology and find ourselves. Try out everything and learn from them, this way you keep yourself open to better things, rather than not knowing why you’re doing or subscribing to such a fad or trend that doesn’t really suit your personality and especially your lifestyle. Don’t look for the objects, look for your style. Your style of clothes, fabric, gadget, coffee, lifestyle, way of walking or talking, accent, or anything! Find your preference! Or lose who you are and be some pathetic hybrid clone of ideologies you don’t even understand…

Last but definitely not the least; stop combining your hipster, jeje, and gangsta outfits with pathetic oversized flipflops! [Not to mention that you really don’t know what the meaning of an actual pedicure would be. I know my feet aren’t that pretty, but at least I know mine are clean.]