Bad Reputation

Have you ever noticed how young people have such a bad reputation, even though they don't really deserve it. Sure, there are some youths who are clearly trouble, but there is also a large percentage who aren't. In fact, in some circumstances, I have found young people to be far more understanding that older people. For example, a young person in a wheelchair is quite often shunned, or looked upon as a malingerer by an older person, without their having any proof. The older person will not bother to help this person though they have no proof that the person is malingering. They demand respect, regardless of whether they have earned it. As I have said, there are youths who do exactly the same thing as this, so it is not an exclusive thing. What I am saying is that everything is relative, and that people should be judged on far more than just age. To me, age is nothing but a number. The number of years we have been alive. We do not gain wisdom by age, we simply gain more opportunity to gain wisdom, something that many young people seem to see, but not many older people do.

Perhaps it is time to start valuing people for what they bring to the table than for the number of years they have been alive.

“Oh, I can’t possibly like that! It’s way too mainstream”

I am so sick of people going on about how they hate stuff that;’s popular, simply because it is popular. The fact is, if bands like Girls Aloud and The Saturdays were not so popular, a lot of the people that currently say they hate them, would say they are great. This just makes all of these people seem pathetic. I’m sick of people saying they hate things and then secretly liking them. If you like something, then you like it. Who cares what other people think? In saying that you hate it and then listening to it when no one else is watching, you become pathetic losers who are more concerned with public image than in being a genuine person. And then, you have the cheek to go on about the popular bands being FAKE!! Have you taken a look in the mirror?! Fact is, things that are popular, are in the charts because PEOPLE LIKE THEM and are buying them!! And anyone that tries to say that people are manipulated into liking them are being disrespectful to the general public in thinking that they are so much better because they’ve ‘seen through it’. I like chart music. I like non-chart music. If I like a song, I like it. It doesn’t matter to me who sang it, wrote it, or whether it’s popular. And anyone that makes a decision based on whether something is mainstream is just as lame and shallow as the bands they believe actually are lame and shallow!

To Vote or Not to Vote?

As election day looms and we are bombarded with propaganda and lobbying from all of the different political parties, who are, let’s face it, all as corrupt as each other. Any government that gets into office will basically decide to do what is best for them. All of the parties criticising Labour for their expenses scandal seem to forget that if they were in their shoes, they would probably do exactly the same thing. The simple fact is that the government DOES NOT CARE about the general public. They only want to get into office to serve their own agenda.

Plenty of people I have spoken to have said that they will not bother to vote. The problem with this is that we risk some left wing parties like the BNP getting in by default then. The fact of the matter is that we do HAVE to vote. Though I believe that all of the political parties are corrupt and only out for what they can get, I also believe that we have a duty to vote for the lesser evil of them all. The fact is, the vote that all of those women in the suffragettes lost their lives for has become nothing more than a farce. We cannot hope to vote for someone who will fight our corner, all we can do is vote for someone whose wants and needs are going to harm us, as a public, the least.

To all the people saying that they will not vote this week, I say “It’s your choice, but do you really want someone like the BNP getting into power, because that is what will happen if we as a people stand by and do nothing”. We have a duty to this country, to do our best to make sure that we do not fall under any left wing power, whose aim is not for the better of our country, but to push their own personal agenda.

So, people, I know it feels like a farce and a waste of time, but VOTE! Vote for the party you consider to be the lesser of all the evils presented to us in the political parties standing.