Cycling to Paris

this is perhaps to be the longest post yet.

have you ever felt like you've been caught in a moment where you feel like the problems in your life seem so insignificant compared to those of someone you've just seen in a film or read about in a book? have you ever felt like you've wasted moments of your life despairing over something that in comparison to the problems of these characters are nothing? i have. it happened recently. well, not too recently, but still. but now i feel the need to question the purpose of those moments in films or books or wherever/however you experience them. to some people, i might by wasting my time, but i want to know why these moments are shown to us. are they shown to us so that we get that odd feeling where we feel like our lives aren't as bad as we think? if so, then the more the merrier. bring on those moments. or are they shown because the people who conceived those ideas want us to reflect on how small our problems are compared to such problems as death, for lack of a better example. if this is true, then perhaps it is important to make clear that despite the fact that our problems, like relationships breaking up, may not be as big as those that we see, but in our lives these smaller moments are the equivalent of those that we see in the cinema or whatever. for us, those moments are the ones where you would want a song playing the background; music that would reflect the tragedy of your situation. again, i'm going to be a little bit self-concious and worry about what people would say upon reading this. my guess is that most people would simply say "you're pointing out the obvious." if that is the case, then why does no-one talk about these things? surely if it is something so obvious, then it is worthy of being discussed. my second guess at people's reaction would be that someone would think that this is either an attack on someone that has let me down, or that i'm a little bit bitter about something that has happened to me and that's why i've written this. i don't doubt that that would be an obvious road to go down, because i think that i would think the same if i saw someone having such a rant as this. but i stress that this is not the case. this is merely what i feel like i need to say. it is not a personal attack on anyone, or a form of revenge or bitterness. it is only what i want to say. nothing more, nothing less.

that is the first rant over.

now for the second.

what is wrong with 'indie'? why does 'indie' have so many followers and haters at the same time? why do people aspire to become 'indie' only to shunt the glory when it has been achieved? has it let them down? i don't know. what i do know is that it is a group, a gang, a cult, whatever you want to call it, that is incredibly important to the lives of young people today. i should know. in my school, in my year there are two groups main groups that you can divide the students of my year into. the first is the chav group. the second is the indie/cool group. that may sound lame, but it's true. the indie/cool group are, surprisingly, a group of people who are the group you aspire to be in. they are the group that have the parties everyone's talking about, so it's easy to see why people want to be a part of that group. and in that sense, i think it's fair to say that that is the general feeling towards 'indie' on a wider scale: everyone wants to be there. however, the 'indie' following has a brutal tendancy where it rears its head and rejects itself for what it has become. people aspire to be 'indie' but once they've achieved that status, they begin to think that it's now not cool to be 'indie', and that you're only truly 'indie' if you hate the status of being 'indie'. where is the sense?

i've lost my drive to rant now, so this is the end, but anyone who reads this should not be disappointed: this is the longest post to date. chin up.

chelseafan26 @ 18:03
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