wear good shoes, question authority, represent

___Let's look at some pretty shoes while I get serious for a hot minute, kay? That way any of you who prefer to simply look at pictures (which I have nothing against, really, pictures are worth a 1000 words after all. And I know I can be verbose) can get a nice shoe porn post. And not be shocked by how different I tend to sound when I get annoyed.
___Maybe it's the end of the year senior syndrome (a different strain of senioritis) that has been making me extra irritable. But it seems a ton of things are bothering the hell out of me lately. On a small scale it's my school administration's total corruption. They have decided to award themselves an 8-16% increase in a quick, hushed school board meeting. Oh, and my vice principal, who is a straight up homie g to all the idiots who wind up in her office every other week, just purchased herself $8,000 furniture. I think my parents furnished my whole first floor for less, just pointing that out. Meanwhile teacher salaries are frozen, our sports uniforms could have been worn by our parents when they were our age, and our school is simply "too poor" to do many things.___On a larger scale... America's capitalist system fucking blows. Parade magazine issued its annual income ranges. Since when does a CEO of Wells Fargo make 18.7 million? For what --being a pain in the ass to all his employees? And this just brings light to how out of hand the Twilight craze has gotten: Stephenie Meyers made $50 million this year. As much as James Cameron, director of Avatar. More than Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres, Johnny Depp, and Kanye West. I mean props to Meyers for cashing in big time of the Twi-fanatics, but still! The only not sickening part about reading some of these ridiculous salaries? At least Snookie ala Jersey Shore isn't rollin' in the cash; she's only made about $2,200 this year.
___I know, I know. You're probably thinking: that's life, it's just how things are, and it's how it's always going to be. It's what my mom told me when I told her about school. And it's what everyone always tells me when I get angry around my friends. But I beg to differ. I say right now, we all have the ability to make a change with this world. And no matter how tough or how silly we may seem, we must always fight against what we think is wrong. Going against the grain is not just a teen angst thing. If we sit back and close ourselves into our own little worlds, we let CEO's like John Stumpf manage to give himself $18.7 million yearly while we struggle to find jobs in this economy or get diddly squat when our FASFA forms are sent in.____So put on a killer pair of shoes (like the ones show here, obviously), walk the streets of your life, question the authority around you, and represent yourself as an intelligent, strong individual. Never, ever stop fighting for what you believe in.

{jak&jil}