The Same

Driving back from lunch the other day I noticed a group of 4 teenage boys riding BMX bikes, all the same type, same seat height, the boys were roughly the same size and were all wearing the same colored black baseball hats. I was at a Red Light and sitting there watching this all transpire, the boy stopped after the crossed the street and were yucking it up and laughing at each others witty banter, just kids during summer with nothing else to do but be kids,, yet they all looked the same with no regard to individualism just stuck on whats hip and cool and looking like 4 twin brothers with very little fashion imagination! After the light changed to green I drove by them and tried to snap a picture to add to this piece but could not snap it off before being obscured by other passing cars. So the day went on drove back to work and finished the workday. As I was driving home and hitting the road I saw another group of 4 teenage boys, about the same age as the boys on bikes but obviously different kids altogether on skateboards, all wearing black beanies, black pants and some skater t-shirts in roughly the same shade of clothing and sharing the same demeanor of coolness and carefree lifestyle and enjoying the summer sun as they legged out distance on the streets and sidewalks . Again the young culture all wearing what skaters or BMX-ers wear totally disregarding free expression of any color, or freelancing whatsoever and all store bought and overpaid at some local skate shop. But seems sad or different to me that here the youth of our time lacks any imagination or freedom to express themselves at all. Times that make our kids conform to uniformity and to fit in is so important that is seems that it has left the Young devoid of any self expression whatsoever unless it status quo and keeping up with their buddies in everything that they wear, they do and represent. Too damn strange and I witnessed it all in the same day!!