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Chapter 1: Why do we struggle to know who we really are?
We have a crisis of people have no idea who the heck they are. They have no idea who they are. Why is it that we as Gen Z live our lives through Fortnite skins?
Instead of crafting our own personality, instead of finding things we actually like, we look towards somebody with a follower account and that decides what we wear, that decides what we think is good, what we think is awesome, and nobody has questioned it. It drives me nuts. And maybe I'm speaking from a level of entitlement and I don't think that everything that's popular is bad.
That's not at all what I think. I just think it's comical that we have access to literally every era of human existence on our phones, on our laptops. We can do research about any time we can find the things that we genuinely like and think are interested. And instead we settle on something that we see from a creator.
Oh, well, I mean, they're wearing the IMG a pixie coat.
So I guess that's the standard. And I was the same way. I was the exact same way. In middle school, I remember I used to wear Life is Good t-shirts. I used to wear Skechers. And I used to wear Gap sweatpants. And I thought I was the flyest kid in the middle school. And that was until someone pointed out, damn, what are those?
at my Skechers and immediately I begged my parents I was like I need the Nike Roshi runs I need them like yesterday because I keep getting picked on at school and I remember the day I went to school like all decked out in neon Nike elite gear I looked like a highlighter and I went into the bathroom and I looked at myself and I'm like I hate how this looks I hate this this looks so ugly like why did I willingly ask my parents to buy me all of this I look like trash like I would never wear this if I didn't
you know, care about what other people thought. I just want you to ask a question before you really think, man, this is what I like. Is that really you? I just want you to, I'm begging you to ask yourself this question because maybe chances are it is you and you do like it because you think it's cool. You saw somebody else rock it and that is like, oh, that's dope.
You actually have a genuine like respect and you want it. But. Most of us, I don't think we even think about it. We just see somebody wear something online and they have a follower account that is big and it makes us feel insecure and we think that's what we need to wear. Like the amount of white t-shirts and chains, black t-shirts and chains and shorts right now in male fashion is ridiculous.
It's crazy. Like it is the basic, you know, Jonesy of the male experience is a white tee and a chain. From Amazon. Where did the fun go? Like, I have not seen people dress in a way that really reflects what they love and what they think is cool. I haven't seen that. And maybe it is because that is expensive and we as Gen Z, the one thing we don't have is money.
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Chapter 2: How do social media and influencers shape our identities?
And I have met so, in college I met every other person was just, their algorithm was them. And it's not fair to be like, this is a problem because the algorithm is feeding you things that you want to see, right? It's like, it's a reflection, it's a mirror. But it just makes me, it really irks me the wrong way because we as a generation think we're so individual. We are not.
We think that we are such free thinkers. No, we are not. We're not. We are letting things do the thinking for us, and that is fine. I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with that. I love my For You page. I love my feed. It's awesome. But oftentimes, I have to ask myself, is that really me? Is that really you?
Do I like it because I like it, or do I like it because I think I should like it, but I don't actually? And this problem will just become worse. I really think that we have a crisis of people have no idea who the heck they are. They have no idea who they are. And they read posts. And they adopt posts as their basis of thinking. They haven't even thought twice about the posts that they read.
They wear things that don't even compliment their body. Doesn't even look good. But they're like, well... It's a brand name and the influencer that I love wears it. They go to restaurants that they have been told through a screen are good instead of going to the one down the street and just trying it. Like, what is going on? Am I overreacting? I'm kind of having a crisis right now. I don't know.
I just know we can do better because I've met people who are so unique and they, their bag runs deep. Like it runs so deep. They have so many interests. They have so many things that they use the internet as a tool for.
They're interested in the history of a certain English brand and they love that brand and they have gone to the depths to research that brand and like find pieces that they like about it. There is an art to that. There is an art of curation for that. And that is like, on an individual level, getting just axed.
We are instead just opting for the default skin when we can build the character that we want. Like, we can literally take a Y2K hat, mix it with a 90s windbreaker, wear, you know, pants with a certain kind of embroidery on it that you're like, oh, I love flowers, so I'm going to wear flowers. That is slowly just getting pushed out.
And it is hard because those kind of avenues for expression don't exist in the same way. Like, it's just, it doesn't, right? Because those things are expensive. And we have come to an age where things that are expensive, for a lot of us, we just can't even think about it. A house, I can't even fathom it. $350,000, that is an insane amount of money. That is an insane amount of money.
And we are being left with, like, just, like, characters to play. Just skins. And it's just frustrating when you go to a party and you ask people, like, why do they wear what they wear? Why are they interested in the things that they're interested?
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