If you were born in the hood then you will surely know this. Tradition dictates that on Christmas, our parents make it a point that they buy us the coolest clothes they can think of. It is customary to go shopping for that kinda shit on Christmas, but the customs since to have changed with the times. Lately Christmas is an excuse for us to get drunk, irresponsible and stupid. As black people, we have this mentality of using any holiday as a reason to be as stupid as possible.
I don’t know why, but we as the youth of today have seemed to forget the significance of these holidays. We really don’t give a shit how we got to enjoy the little privileges we have today. I don’t mean to sound like your mom or some shit, but when was the last time any of us celebrated a holiday for the significance of that holiday? Are we really that ignorant? Are we that desperate to impress each other that if you don’t get drunk on a holiday you are branded as boring?
It seems like the only time we take time to understand the world around us is when we are fed the bullshit of social media and peer pressure. We often joke about peer pressure and act like it’s a term for white people, this term has such a hold over us that we are willing to lie to our parents to get the money we need to go out. Fun is a good thing, but take time to think of the responsibilities you have to yourself, think about the morning after the night before. Pharmacies are ripping the benefits of “Morning after pills”, too many people end up in hospital, and most if not all of us spend money like the shit is going out of fashion.
I love yall my fellow black youngens but we have to start making a change, I am tired of seeing the same shit every year and then people complain of hangovers, being broke and not remembering what they did the night before. I bet when you start posting a status on Facebook or Twitter, you do it to see how many people will be interested in the dumb shit you did.
Let’s stop living to impress and start living to progress.
Let’s stop living to impress and start living to progress.
TheNASHmag Ed.
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