Introduction Blog

  My name is Alexa and I live the fabulous life of a 16 year old stuck in her room all day. I wake up, brush my teeth, go to class, and then go to sleep. What an interesting and hectic life I live. 

    On a real note, my life is actually more complicated than that. I am growing during this era has its insane ups and downs. Politically we are a hot mess, mentally we are even worse, and educational wise everything is how can have a higher test score and not how much you are actually learning and understand. Putting my biased beliefs aside, I think growing up in this era is genuinely very hard. The world has been flipped completely and utterly upside down.

    If you take covid out of the picture, which is a problem within itself, life has grown to be pretty complicated. Obviously progressively we in are in a better state because as a women of a minority in another era I wouldn't have the rights I have now. However, something that scares me so much is how much love has evolved. I mean this in a romantic and in a friendship way. The way humans interact has no compassion and and minimal feeling. Everything happens through a phone. Back in February, I would walk the halls observing people as couple sat directly next to each other and instead of showing romantic emotions via in person they were texting each other, or friends or were scrolling through social media. Same with friends, they would be walking right net to each other and wouldn't say a single word, and not in a funny sense.

    I fear that as love is evolving through texts and emojis I won't necessarily find that love I yearn for. I don't want to meet my soulmate through tinder or snapchat. I don't want my significant other to show their emotion towards me through heart emojis. You can call me old fashion, but this isn't looking like a very good road ahead. 

    Something I have noticed with my generation is that we don't date. Dating is weird and gross to most people. They would rather meet up on a Saturday, hookup and then dip. That astounds me because I always grew up watching Disney movies and I see the guy and the girl go on these romantic dates and live the life I yearn. Obviously I know the world isn't like the movies, however a girl can wish. I just wish that life wasn't so lacking emotion via in person and enjoying a persons company wasn't such a far fetched and foreign thought.