to answer your questions: when i was in middle school, i used to live in a small village, where the only things to do was wander through the grocery store or eat kebab by the park. our hang-out spots were our school, each other's house and the park. however, when i was in high-school, we started to hang out in the city, our hang-out were mostly about food and culture. we would eat at a fast-food, like you said, it was the only thing we could afford, and we would go to the cinema. i don't have memories of myself going to the mall with friends, though we probably went as well. yet i don't think we were big consumers.
anyways, i adored this essay! i keep believing that feeling guilty about consuming too much what is not needed, is the way to stop doing it. so this makes sense for me to hope that everyone start feeling a bit more guilty :p thank you for this!
thankyou for the lovely insight and for sharing with us your experience in regards of the teenagehood, alice♡ and i agree with you. gotta start somewhere, right? if we let the consumption numbed us down, i feel like that's exactly what the repressive capitalistic system wants for us - and we are not going to let them win
Love it! I think this resonates with so many ppl around the globe. This isn’t just a local thing. Most of us used to hang out in malls with our friends, talk and window shop, cause we didn’t have another care in the world. It was the place we wanted to be, and a very sacred way of hanging out
thankyou for your insight, dear astrid♡ i am glad that i am not alone in my experience and observation. yes it was mostly good memories for me and my friends as well. funny how a place that promotes capitalism could be somehow our sanctuary as teenagers haha
to answer your questions: when i was in middle school, i used to live in a small village, where the only things to do was wander through the grocery store or eat kebab by the park. our hang-out spots were our school, each other's house and the park. however, when i was in high-school, we started to hang out in the city, our hang-out were mostly about food and culture. we would eat at a fast-food, like you said, it was the only thing we could afford, and we would go to the cinema. i don't have memories of myself going to the mall with friends, though we probably went as well. yet i don't think we were big consumers.
anyways, i adored this essay! i keep believing that feeling guilty about consuming too much what is not needed, is the way to stop doing it. so this makes sense for me to hope that everyone start feeling a bit more guilty :p thank you for this!
thankyou for the lovely insight and for sharing with us your experience in regards of the teenagehood, alice♡ and i agree with you. gotta start somewhere, right? if we let the consumption numbed us down, i feel like that's exactly what the repressive capitalistic system wants for us - and we are not going to let them win
Love it! I think this resonates with so many ppl around the globe. This isn’t just a local thing. Most of us used to hang out in malls with our friends, talk and window shop, cause we didn’t have another care in the world. It was the place we wanted to be, and a very sacred way of hanging out
thankyou for your insight, dear astrid♡ i am glad that i am not alone in my experience and observation. yes it was mostly good memories for me and my friends as well. funny how a place that promotes capitalism could be somehow our sanctuary as teenagers haha