figuring out who you are is hard, but buying into a new "skin"... is easy. this is why we should spend more time to learn about ourselves. https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow
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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.
That is the one thing we do not have. So maybe it's that. But like... No, because I see it in personalities. Have you like met somebody who you can tell like they are online in a certain neighborhood of the internet, like they only watch like a certain type of content and they act that way? It's, it is dystopian.
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