Blog 6
After
reading this week’s chapters it is amazing we survive adolescents! Adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience,
personal fable, illusion of invulnerability, I can think of examples for all of
these from my teen days. My adolescents,
was in the early 1980’s and I do think it was a simpler time then. I did not have the pressure of being on
display every second of every day like today with face book and other social
media that is at our figure tips twenty four hours a day. But there was social pressure. I went to junior high and high school in
southern California in an area where when you turned sixteen for your birthday
you got convertible Mercedes. We lived
in a rich and wealthy area but were not rich.
There was an unspoken rule you did not go to the mail box unless you
were in full make up and dresses up; you never knew who could drive by. But I don’t think the media was so intertwined
in our lives. I feel depending on where
you live, your social and economic status has a lot to do with the extra
pressures of adolescence. One of my best
friends going up was gay and I was one of only two friends that knew and over
twenty years ago it was not as accepted as it is now. I know this was hard for her not being able
to express herself for who she was. She
choose other ways to express herself being a little more masculine in the way
she dressed and did her hair she was more tough and yet soft spoken, she
partied a lot and was in sports. She had some depression off and on growing
up. She was such a great person so
caring for others. But I don’t feel she
really got to experience her adolescents, this always made me sad for her (She
has a wonderful life now) but while reading I thought of her a lot. I have wonderful and of course what I thought
then as tragic memories of my adolescents and am glad it is not a stage we have
to repeat.
I didn't really think about social media while I was reading this weeks material. That's a very good point! It only furthers the belief that everyone is watching every move you make when every move you make is posted for hundreds of people (and that's only if you have pretty strict privacy settings) to see!
ReplyDeleteGoing from what you stated, that it was much more simple back then I have seen a lot more smiles and enjoying life when I look at pictures from before from my family and from movies and now that we have more social media interaction, more pressure and people growing up faster and technology becoming "smarter" life is rough. What will it be like when you are retired and suppose to be enjoying life not working ( what I see retirement as) and how will young kids now be when they are adults? So much happens during those adolescent years that even the transition from kid to teen and teen to adult is not clear because each person is different and as I read during this week that was left with this feeling of uncertainty.
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