What you can get for ten grand...

God, this is a busy week. We have two upcoming tests which will basically determine our grades for the quarter and we’re reading a book which everyone loves, everyone except me apparently. The main character is the type of person which I hate with all my might. Holden Caulfied: a kid with problems…so what? Don’t we all have out own problems? Not because of that do we go around breaking widows, punching people or other similar stupidities. What bothers me most is the fact that there are many Holden Caulfields in my school and grade.

People need to feel they suffer like the rest to calm their conscience, especially at ASM: A school where people pay $10.000 a year for getting a proper education…and you see people listening to songs of revolution and how life is hard and how they have to kill, rap and smoke to survive…how in the world is any of that similar with the life of any student at ASM? They’re not precisely living under a bridge…so to speak. Because students here have basically anything they want, I suppose they want to fix more challenging goals for themselves like: drinking, smoking, doing graffiti and vandalizing stuff like wild monkeys (sounds manly and mature huh?) It’s as if they were ashamed of being wealthy and needed to calm their conscience by reassuring themselves that they are “street kids”…please! Can you get to be any more hypocrite? Of course we all have problems, but there are two ways of dealing with them: relying on the people who care for you and which you care for and accepting life’s not fair, or acting childishly saying life has cursed you and you are a poor martyr of society which will take revenge by opposing any figure of authority available and establish anarchy in the world…10 grand, and you get that? God knows why, but the luckiest people economically speaking are the ones which most imitate the less lucky ones. A year ago, and still this year, it was “fashion” to take a $100 jean and cut it up and wear super baggy pants that gave the impression they were going to fall off there and then…the guy didn’t have money for a belt? I don’t think so! Besides the stupidity shown in several fashion statements…politics is also influencing teenagers at ASM in a peculiar way…now, the “coolest of the coolest” are anarchist, Marxist-Leninists, or something like that….people! They have trouble articulating those words correctly, let alone understand them! Strangely enough, when you have people which can have almost anything they want, they bite the hand that feeds them. Not only that, but then they go and join political movements which they don’t understand at all just because they want to go against authority I mean 90% of the people wearing a Che Guevara shirt don’t even know what he did or why he did it! That’s what kills me of Holden and people like him: They brag about politics, the world and how society decays when they don’t even know how to tie their shoes. They think they’re the center of the world and everyone should pity or admire them because they move on in life with Christian resignation…furthermore, they express their…”frustration” by vandalizing public and private property, which we’ll end up paying for in taxes. They think their problems should be the center of everyone’s attention…We all have problems but only immature, spoiled kids like Holden Caulfield or people like him think they should be rewarded for enduring them.