{"id":3733,"date":"2009-07-21T00:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2009-07-21T00:50:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T05:50:34","slug":"teen-angst-in-nyc-prep-getting-caught-in-the-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/teen-angst-in-nyc-prep-getting-caught-in-the-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Angst in NYC Prep; Getting Caught In The Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve been watching the Bravo TV reality show NYC Prep,<\/a> where the cameras follow 4 teen girls and 2 teen guys through their teen life.\u00a0 You’ve got Taylor, Sebastian, PC, Jessie, Camille and Kelli, an unlikely mix of public school and private school kids in New York City.\u00a0 A hilarious and right on review is here<\/a>.\u00a0 PC and Jessie, both 17, are prep school kids who used to date, then parted ways, now reconnect for the show as bffs.\u00a0 With all the arrogance and ignorance of youth, PC and Jessie act condescendingly toward the others, continually making remarks about immature children.\u00a0 Yeah, I know. <\/em> The cliffhanger last week was PC and Jessie at dinner concocting their plan to take on – as a charity project – the sweet, quiet, drop dead gorgeous and doesn’t know it, 15 year old Taylor, the only public school kid among the group.\u00a0 Jessie, the plain one with no real personality, definitely does not like the idea of PC being anywhere near any of these girls.\u00a0 Every scene with her and PC is edited to make her look as though she’s mooning over him. Half of PC’s scenes are edited to make you think he might be gay or bi (stay tuned).\u00a0 Sebastian, 16, is another snob, this one with no real cerebral capacity, he relies on his looks to keeps the girls interested.\u00a0 His attempts at conversation are like his dancing: awkward, halting, spasmodic.\u00a0 I grew up with a brother who did the hair flip motion, constantly flipping his hair out of his eyes.\u00a0 The girls eat that up.\u00a0 But dude, develop a personality.<\/p>\n

Kelli is 17 and lives with her 19 year old brother in Manhattan and has a budding singing career.\u00a0 Sebastian liked her until Taylor came on the scene 8 minutes later, so she moons over Sebastian.\u00a0 Camille is really goal driven, and likes to stir the pot among the group.\u00a0 The editing leads us to think she might be a tramp (stay tuned).\u00a0 We get to watch them sit around in different combinations and diss each other and whine about the angst of growing up rich and privileged in NYC.\u00a0 PC, unlikely assh**e that he is, has a depth to himself that could be the real storyline for the show.<\/p>\n

But, wait, who cares about all of this?\u00a0 See how easy it is to get wrapped up in complicated storylines, stuff that has nothing to do with what is real in your life and what you want to be moving toward?\u00a0 Like Camille says, “It’s like a train wreck.\u00a0 You can’t help but watch.”<\/p>\n

But we can help but watch.\u00a0 If we give it some thought, there is likely a few other things we could be doing that would help us prepave a happier tomorrow than watching NYC Prep.\u00a0 And what is that?\u00a0 Well, that’s for us each to discover on our own.<\/p>\n

Some of us don’t hit the road to self discovery until we are in our 50’s and 60’s.\u00a0 Others can have it happen in their 20’s.\u00a0 And, for those who are forced to grow up more quickly than their emotional and psychological selves can keep up with, it can happen earlier.\u00a0 Like it seems to be happening for PC In NYC Prep.\u00a0 In one scene, he is speaking, in his young world-weary way, about all the sex and drugs in the prep school scene: “Everyone has sex with each other and then betrays each other.\u00a0 It gets excessive.”\u00a0 If at 17 this is a problem for him, then he’s begun his spiritual journey and that means he’s feeling the pressure cooker and it can’t be fun for him. PC says to his therapist “I’m striving to be someone different,\u00a0 I want to get beyond where I am\u00a0 now.” No wonder he is tormented and terrified.<\/p>\n

But being tormented and terrified can be a good first step to getting out of a situation we no longer belong in.\u00a0 When we are tormented and terrified, we learn really quickly exactly what it is we do not want. At that point, we can start considering what we’d like instead.\u00a0 What we’d like to live instead of the life we’re living.\u00a0 What we might do.\u00a0 Where we might go.\u00a0 Who might be there with us.<\/p>\n

These are the real questions of life.\u00a0 Not who’s going out with whom <\/em>and what designer is so and so wearing<\/em>.\u00a0 Not where is the hottest night spot to be seen in<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Just who am I and who do I want to be? And once I decide that, how do I get there?<\/p>\n

And in the meantime, to enjoy my Now moments to the fullest.<\/p>\n

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