Episode 40: Forgetting The Little Guy

"My demographic will click on anything graphic/now I'm in fashion/don't know who long it's lasting/it could be passing/should I put eggs in more baskets?/And try out fashion/before I go out of fashion."

                                                                    -AJR, "Beats"

   Junior year was my favorite year of high school. I had a good amount of friends, (mostly) classes I liked, was finally an upper classman, and felt more appreciated instead of the lonesome quiet kid I felt like my first two years. I had two very close friends who were both a year older than me. Their names were Logan and Tyler. What happened to my relationships with them are two very different stories. Obviously, since they were Seniors, the end of that year meant the end of their time at high school. Meaning no more hanging out with them at school. Meaning our friendships depended on how much we kept in touch with each other.

Tyler: I explicitly remember telling Tyler not to forget me when he graduated. Well, he did (mostly). Our interactions were reduced to little few-second chats when I would run into him by happenstance wherever he was working. Do I fault him for this? A little. I considered him one of my best friends Junior year. He could've sent me a message every once in a while. But, that's my fault too. I could've messaged him. 

Logan: Logan is still my best friend. I met him in (my) seventh grade, and our friendship has had its ups and downs, no doubt, but he's my brother. I've been friends with the guy for like nine years now. In my Senior year, Logan would even come by to have lunch with Josh and I at Burger King at least once a week. We always kept chatting and sending each other memes. We still do to this day, we still go to movies to this day. He is literally the only person from high school that I still talk to regularly. 

   This all ties into what I feel like a lot of people do when they move up: forget the little guy. I already touched on this kinda stuff in that episode I did about Bruno Mars. 

   You see it with famous people all the time. Billionaires like to go into space just because they can. Rappers dedicate songs to their wealth and how many women want them. Their fame clouds their minds into forgetting where they came from. They get so caught up in who they are now that they forget who they were. They forget about the people who knew and loved them before they were famous.

   Just like what I said about Brandon Flowers in the Bruno Mars episode, he has not forgotten the little guy. Half the man's lyrics are about his roots.

   Neither has the band AJR, who I included a lyric from at the top of this episode. Their music has a very recurring theme that is the struggles of growing up and dealing with the transition to adulthood. They are pretty darn successful band and have several hits; they could be bragging about those. But they don't. Instead they write songs about how they don't want their parents to throw their LEGOs away, how they hope they make their parents proud, and how they hope an old bully from school now thinks that they're cool. 

   Anyway, you get what I'm saying. If I'm ever famous, please cancel me if I forget the little guy. Here's Kevin Hart, because he's literally a little guy.

See you next week!