What I have come to notice lately is that everyone does things just because people they like or people they know are doing it. I guess because this never really mattered to me, it has been bugging me lately:
I am planning on going home for president’s day weekend and when I told one of my friends that she should come with me she replied “eh that won’t be fun…I have homework to do…” pretty much listed off roughly 8 excuses so that I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on one in which to engage in debate. She made it clear that she didn’t want to even harvest the idea so I dropped it. The next day, I mentioned this trip to three of my other friends, that they should come home with me and they got really excited so the plans were made. When my first pessimistic “I don’t want to go to California” friend heard this news(one of the peole that are now going is a boy she likes) she now made it clear that she now suddenly had no plans, no homework, and has since then dedicated her life to being excited about the trip.
I realized that people do this a lot with places to eat too. I know people that go into starbucks because of people who they hope to see there, not to order anything. Or people who go to one restaurant or the other because the guy they have a crush on loves that place and they want to tell him they’ve been there too.
I think that people should adopt the philosophy of doing what they want. This peer pressure/trendy idea is driving me nuts. This blog is probably making me hypocritical because I am sure I am guilty of the same thing now and again. Oh well no one really knows me so they can’t prove it :)
I am planning on going home for president’s day weekend and when I told one of my friends that she should come with me she replied “eh that won’t be fun…I have homework to do…” pretty much listed off roughly 8 excuses so that I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on one in which to engage in debate. She made it clear that she didn’t want to even harvest the idea so I dropped it. The next day, I mentioned this trip to three of my other friends, that they should come home with me and they got really excited so the plans were made. When my first pessimistic “I don’t want to go to California” friend heard this news(one of the peole that are now going is a boy she likes) she now made it clear that she now suddenly had no plans, no homework, and has since then dedicated her life to being excited about the trip.
I realized that people do this a lot with places to eat too. I know people that go into starbucks because of people who they hope to see there, not to order anything. Or people who go to one restaurant or the other because the guy they have a crush on loves that place and they want to tell him they’ve been there too.
I think that people should adopt the philosophy of doing what they want. This peer pressure/trendy idea is driving me nuts. This blog is probably making me hypocritical because I am sure I am guilty of the same thing now and again. Oh well no one really knows me so they can’t prove it :)
5 comments:
Good point. I think that is why i don't do several things, because everyone else is doing them because of some one doing it. Like wearing those rubbery croc shoes...
i agree, this is a great point. going along with the food aspect of it all, i dont eat seafood because it is just gross in my opinion. and there is no way that a "cute" guy could get me to eat out at a seafood restaurant. no matter how picky that may sound.
Wow i have never had such a pessimistic view on the vanity of people to ever consider they would ever go into starbucks just to be noticed, but if those people really exist that is ridiculous.
That is quite an interesting point of view. I have to laugh when your friend just happened to change his mind. I have one of those friends too and you have a point.
If the only factor in my deciding what and where to eat was what I wanted to eat, I would not eat at a great variety of places. I think it's healthy and normal to allow other factors to influence where we're going to go, down to the decor of the place or the kind of music they play, or even the kind of company they hope to meet there.
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