Becoming
what the social media says is the “norm” is in fact abnormal. The statement in
which I have just said is not only a staple in liberal and conservative’s diet,
it is also the truth. In my own social experience that has been going on throughout
my entire high school career I have noticed one thing, and that is that being
so-called “normal” is abnormal. As a freshman in high school I had thought it
would be more beneficial to try and be my own person, but in fact I was wrong.
I was only wrong because, if you weren’t a carbon copy of the football captain
or the head cheerleader you were nothing more than the spittle left upon the
bottle known as social hierarchy. Noticing this hierarchy at a younger time prepared
me for how I would decide my fate in the now larger hierarchy in which I have
become sworn into by the powers invested into them by the grace of whoever is
looking.
In
schools around the world, and also in the workforce there is a virus called the
clique. In schools a clique is a group of hormonally imbalanced teenagers who
call each other (i.e. friend, home girl, <insert last name here>). If you
have not known by now this is an article about the teenage element. There is a
clique that actually refuses to be known as one, called Gothic. Gothic students
would like to not conform to the government, social cliques and normality’s set
by the media, but instead they did just that. They would say let’s all not
conform to the cliques and groups by all wearing the same clothes and acting
the same way. ”Clique- a narrow exclusive circle or group of
persons; especially : one held
together by common interests, views, or purposes.”
This article is a two part article and the
second article will be published next week.
Citation
"Clique." Merriam-Webster
Online. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Web. 11 Jan. 2012.
<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clique>.
