I feel like I'm the only person in the world that is totally ambivalent towards Fall Out Boy's comeback. Sure, I dedicated more than half of my adolescence to them, but this just makes me feel nostalgic and I don't have room for nostalgia in my life. I really don't miss who I was when I was in middle and high school. If anything, I want to forget those days as much as I can because no matter how I look at it, no matter how many good things happened, it sucked. I was always pushed around by both my family and my friends, I pushed away my friends in favor of a fruitless relationship, and I always put everyone around me in front of myself. I had a poor sense of judgement back then and I don't want to remember it. I know that my past is a part of me, but I don't want to brood over it. I want to move on with my life. And that's why I couldn't care less about their return to the music scene.
(Also, looking back, they really weren't that good to start with)
On another note, for my Analysis of Texts and Contexts class, the professor asked us to make a list of different "texts" we know how to make, and by "texts", she means anything that conveys a message or point, and it doesn't necessarily have to be written. My platform, which I know how to utilize to best express myself is through mixtapes. Even though technology can do all sorts of cool things these days, I've always been a real stickler for the old fashioned and I think that there's something wonderfully meaningful and romantic about making mixtapes for other people and for myself. Generally, I've found that I can best express myself through the music that I listen to. That's partially why I think I could never write and compose a song; I could never express myself better than the way that one perfect song does.