Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Pleading the 5th

Two days from today I will have my last fashion journalism class. As a final assignment, we were instucted to write an opinion piece. I struggled with this, trying to find something to find an opinion on. Something interesting. Or maybe something funny. Or maybe something meaningful. I just didn't want it to be stupid.

While pondering the topic I probably checked my facebook 13 times, updated my twitter, and gossiped with my friend sitting on the computer next to me.

When I was younger I had a fleeting dream of being an attorney. I could talk anyone's ear off. I loved and still love to argue, sometime's just for the sake of it. Also, as a Libra I have a complete need for things to be fair and just. You would think churning out an opinion piece would be simple for me.

I don't know, maybe I've run out of opinions. Or thoughts. During my 13 interval facebook break trying to complete this shit I noticed the dozens of updates of people either not wanting to do homework, falling behind in their homework, or questioning why or when or how they were ever going to do it. I would have gotten angry at them and told them to get off facebook, but well, it's not like I wasn't doing the exact same thing.

Why do we only have opinions on people profile pictures? Status updates? Friend requests? You can like it with a click, or not with a comment. Yet somehow, if it's not streaming easily done a feed I find myself unable to decided how I feel about it anymore.

How is that possible that I can't have an opinion without a "like" button?

♥ Lini.

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