Trends: marketing scheme or criteria for establishing the social circle? You turn on your television, and you hear “Use this iPod to be trendy.” Flip through a magazine, and you see an advertisement telling you to wear Gap clothing to be cool. Let’s face it, our society is filled with powerful rhetoric, like these advertisements. Although their innocent goal is to display a product, they do it by destroying our confidence in our own originality. Unfortunately, they make us feel as if we must give up our own styles to follow society’s trends. For this reason, I hate trends. They make our society one-dimensional, and suppress means of expression. To make matters worse, it seems as if high school students have become officers of trend, by pressuring their peers into following them. I suppose people have become so afraid of how others see them that are not ready to take risks. For this reason, people do not like doing things that place them outside of the “norm.”
Being able to keep up with trends has become a symbol of status and wealth, and we think that people will see us differently if we don’t go with the flow. We need to realize that it is what is inside that makes a person who they are, not the make-up and clothing on the outside. For example, we automatically think someone wearing an Armani suit must be rich.
I always do what I want to do. Sometimes what I want to do will overlap with the trend, and that does not bother me. If I want to wear a t-shirt saying “GEEKS WILL RULE THE WORLD,” I will. If I feel like wearing a polo shirt, I will. I don’t care what the coolest kid in school thinks about my shirt because I know that it is our inner personality that shapes a person. I look up to people who are different because it shows that they have the courage to be themselves. I think they are the real trend-setters because they create a healthy trend – one that involves being you.
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