January 29
by Janine Stephenson
I just noticed that it's January 29.
If everything was normal, Becca and I would be starting our second semester of
college. Instead, here we are in New Hampshire with Mrs. Stoutmiller and Craig.
Most of those people out there that
are protesting… All they’re doing is cutting class and going out on the
streets. And they’re having their meetings. Meetings, meetings, meetings. As if
meetings changed anything.
And here we are talking to real
people. Becca and I still have another three years until we can vote. But at
least we’re talking to people who can change the way things are rather than
just a bunch of college students who can’t vote either.
But I don’t think that anyone is a
loser. Unlike Seventeen magazine…
We saw an ad for Seventeen in the
paper. Becca and I both read Seventeen still, and we both agree that we should
quit reading it. And we will, in a few months. This ad said that 5 percent of
people our age are “experimenters – my terminology for the losers, the hippies,
the addicts, the runaways.”
I don’t think those people are
losers, and I was very angry with Seventeen Magazine for saying that. Hippies
are not losers and maybe people who run away have their reasons. Being our age
in this country isn’t exactly a joy ride.
