This Is What It Means To Be Basic
I don’t care if you’re on a first name basis with your favorite barista at Starbucks, or if you can recite every episode of Friends at the drop of a hat. I don’t care if you wear Air Force Ones or secretly hope that Adam Brody will come into where you work one day. I don’t care that you love any type of pumpkin based food, and have three different nicknames for your cat. It doesn’t matter that you like Pinterest and have a secret, yet not so secret, addiction to every Carly Rae Jepson song that comes on to the radio. These things don’t make you “basic.”
What makes you basic is your judgment. Your inability to understand that people live their lives differently than you, that people feel and express differently than you. You see, if you are the type of person who judges someone based on what they wear, or what they study, or what shows they like to watch, without ever getting to know them, without ever getting below the surface and understanding that these people are actual human beings with feelings and with hopes and with sadness and with dreams, you are basic.
What makes you basic is your “chill.” Your inability to feel anything more than what is considered appropriate or appealing; your need to never be vulnerable, to always be casual. What makes you basic is your incapacity to text first, your refusal to show more interest than the person you are…
