Written 28 February 2006
I have a belief that the eyeliner girls (those girls who wear too much eyeliner and have experienced more crap than any person should have to handle) are able to go to college and be so much, but when I think of my college experience I wonder if there is a place for those who have been homeless, done drugs, been on probation, etc. Part of it is: Is there hope? Part is: Is there space for them in whatever transformed state they become? Part is: What type of transformation can be expected or is possible? Part is: Would they ever feel comfortable as their new self (or just them) in the world of the accomplished? Would they feel like they betrayed something in their past?
There is nothing wrong with being a hairdresser and tech school graduate, but there are not enough jobs for them all to be hairdressers and they all have so much potential to things they don't even consider within their grasp. I feel like the eyeliner girls so not actually think they have a choice, there are many roads available, and so they are selling themselves short by not acknowledging their self worth and their potential. But then I wonder what it would actually look like for the eyeliner girls to go to college and become the physicists, engineers, authors, architects, teachers, and accountants I know they could be and think they should be.
About Me
- Jess
- I dream big, but I have no idea where I will end up. I am a middle school science teacher, but I want to go back to school. I am interested in the broader field of education and the possibilities of alternative education. I am also an artist. I design and build furniture from recycled materials and play around with other forms of mixed media art. On the horizon is traveling, starting a school, and building a dream house that is disguised as a giant art installation.
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1 comment:
yes...it is sad when life's options are chopped off by age 10, or 6 or even 4...or shoot.... maybe even in utero! Damn that tobacco that cuts off the oxygen flow to that little one yet unborn and the alcohol and drugs that fry brain cells before they can even get put to good use.
BUT....one person telling them they have choices and possibilities to explore... options to be a hairdresser or a teacher or a ________
(fill in the blank) can make a huge difference tho...so..stick with it.
They still might all become hairdressers but if they grasp the idea that they have options... hairdresser just might be by choice rather than by default.
love ya!
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