Your behaviour is influenced more than you would like to admit it.
Don’t Try to Show You Don’t Care
If something sucks, don’t rebel, when you rebel you are showing just how little you care by consciously trying to not give a damn. Your goal in rebelling is to show just how little you care, but your behaviour is still shaped by what you’re rebelling against.
For example, I’ll illustrate two people: Person A and Person B, let’s call them Alfred and Beatrice respectively.
Take the school system, which, as many have already realized, is fundamentally flawed.
Alfred decides to rebel by not putting effort into his grades.
Beatrice fully buys into the system by solely defining her value…
I’ve always wanted to try debate. I remember last year a video popped up on my recommended page on YouTube. Its title was “Intelligence High School Debate,” and once I scrolled down to the comment section, I could see mad amounts of people heaping praise upon these Korean high school kids debating. Comments like, “please dont let my asian mother see this,” or “Are they really high school? Damn when i was in high school i was debating my classmate if my answer is correct but later none of us got the correct answer.”.
I thought I had to try…
Why I Disabled Social Media During Quarantine
The title is a bit misleading — I didn’t get rid of absolutely everything and become a hermit. Before this, I was already a minimal consumer of social media, so maybe it won’t sound as drastic. For the last two years, I’ve either disabled or haven’t touched my Instagram account over the summer. Why? I’ll get into it.
What did I disable?
Instagram and iMessage were two things that I just stopped checking. …
Raymond Zhu
High school student interested in Reading, Philosophy, Photography, Skateboarding, and Life in general.
