just wanted to complaint about people

i've just started university three weeks ago, so far i'm enjoying the whole thing, especially my course, cos it's what i really wanted to do.

i've met very nice people, but they seem to be a minority there. it seems everyone is so wrapped up in their image and being trendy that i dont feel like making friends or talk to them.

the second day i had an introductory lecture and i sat next to this girl. after half an hour, the lecturer told us to have a break and talk to the person next to us. well, we started talking and she was nice, she told me she was starving, so i gave her an apple i had for lunch and discuss how boring the lecture was etc, and then the day finished and i was happy at least i talked to someone that day.

well, i saw the girl the the next day and she saw right through me. i was like HEY! and she just passed me by not saying a word. she was with other girl who kind of lok like her i meanin fashion terms. i could tell she wasnt really into talking to me but she didnt have to be like that. i've seen her a couple of times and she stilll the same. i just ignore her now. i dont really care to be honest it's just that most of the people there are a bit young and kind of look the same, fashionwise and the way they talk...and the things they talk about.

it's pretty boring actually. i wish there were more people open to a good conversation no matter who with and what they dress like.

i guess this is a material world right?

PS: I'm saying she discriminated me, in a way, cos she told me she worked at a major clothes shop in the city and was into fashion and that...perhaps we didnt have much in common, but so what? i might not have many things in common with other people but it doesnt mean that i'm going to ignore them, right?

 

I know what you're talking about, and I hate people like that. They don't see people for what their about, they see them for what they have.

 

There are a lot of people like that girl. Just try not to need them...

 

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Hey there

i am in my second year at university now down here in South Africa and when I read your letter I smiled because i could so much relate to what you are saying.
You know after being on campus thus far i've come to the conclusion that people in their "journey' to finding themselves can be really horrible.Besides the whole clothing thing you mentioned,people are really shallow and fact is these are the kind of people that usualyy dont make it at university.Why?Because their "shallowness' don't allow them to.
I think being at university takes some kinda maturity and you seem to have this due to the fact that you are writing about this girl's ignorance.you can see right through the stupidity.so well done.
you will come across many like her in your academic career but you will find someone eventually with whom you "connect' with regards to what you believe.
I know that people can get some of us really down and even interfere with our concentration but that makes us human at the end of the day.Besides there are so many other issues you will still have to "tackle" at university,thats what we all fall back on when we reminisce about our good days at university.
Embrace all the good and the bad its what makes your university days exciting and oyu only emerge stronger at the end of the day.
Sorry for the long letter but its the only way i could express myself.
Margo

 

^ yeah i kind of thought i would come across people with different perspectives and i;m willing to embrace the fact that everyone is different and well, i enjoy diversity..i've been living 1/3 of my life in a cosmopolitan city and i'm used to it, but i just cant understand the shalowness of it, like things that are so mundane and unecessary become priorities in some people's life. i mean, after all, it's what inside that matters, at least to me. sadly, the great majority of people dont think like that, but we cant do much about it. *sigh*

 

errr I live in a place that defines people by how they look and it leaves me with a sick feeling in my stomach everyday. My school isn't as bad as the community in general. But geez just going into a store you see more than one person with their nose bandaged up from rhino plasty. I had temporary lip implants before (collogen) and it hurt like a bitch when they shot me up with it and the whole experience left me with a new appreciattion for naturaul beauty. With that being said I am supposed to have a breast lift in late May, so I guess my shallowness hasn't diminshed as much as I oped it had.

 

I guess I'm really lucky to be in a university, where most of the people seem really friendly and open-minded and intelligent. Of course, there are these 18 year olds who have just moved away from home and now they're going crazy with the new freedom and independence they're experiencing while living on their own for the first time, but I quess it's just understandable...

 

this is just a side note - but cosmopolitan doesn't mean like.. ritzy.. or snobbish.. or elevated lifestyle.. or anything like how i think you were meaning it, in fact it's the opposite - and of course that's just how i thought you were meaning i, but -

cosmopolitan means being worldly, and not having prejudices, and being generally very liberal.

i see a lot of people misuse this word, i would imagine because of the magazine no offense.. just you know, fyi