"....It was a time of teenage rebellion, a time of limited exploration - that is, limited to anything that seemed to be the opposite of whatever I thought I was expected to be exploring. And that's just what we do at that age: march in lock-step to an idea of nonconformity and judge one another, and ourselves, on the basis of how well we conform to it. No wonder teenagers are so daffy..."
I've been over at the "White Lodge" reading and those words jumped out at me as the best description I've ever read of what it's like to be a teenager. That rebellious time that we are so hell bent on rebelling against conformity that we end up conforming to the very idea, lol. The best example I can think of, maybe because I'm a child of the 60's, is the Hippie Era. How many of us were or remember those that were so intent on "doing their own thing" that they looked and acted like carbon copies of each other?
So we weren't any different from any other generation of teenagers and young adults that think they're on to something new and unique only to be repeating the same phenomenon over and over again. But hey! Nobody did it any better than we did, now did they? The proof is in the fact that every commercial, movie and T.V. show these days are using our music. And you just can't beat our music that lives on 40 years later.
So maybe we did it just a tad better than the rest, ya think? I like to think so.
Peace, y'all and have a great weekend!
Pup
