Much more than meets the eye

College kids are among the most depressed people in the nation. I have heard this repeated in many of my classes this semester, and I must say I am now a believer. When it comes to being young and fashionable, many people become blinded and begin to think that what is on the outside counts. Well in my opinion, they couldn't be more wrong. \nThough I do love clothes and I love to go shopping, I am much deeper than all of that. Because I have started writing about fashion, I have learned a great deal about life and what matters most. Have you ever looked around and realized the environment you're in is a reflection of all the personalities in it? Well, I recently took a look around and I realized a lot of college students act like they're depressed. I know some people that would blow your mind. I know some sad stories about some really brilliant fashionable people.\nThere's this guy I know who was a musical child prodigy. When he performed, your heart would melt. He went to college, and, because he spent his entire life playing, he did not want to do it anymore. So one day he buckled under the pressure of his parents and outside standards and slammed his finger in a door, fracturing it. What's worse is when his parents found out they were so caught up in superficial things like money, clothes and big houses, they blew it off. \nAnother girl I know is really into her major. She is really pretty and good at what she does. She is fairly wealthy, wears designer clothes and has everything anyone could ever want, but she is not happy. I know this because I see her almost every day rolling her eyes, sitting in judgment about everything and saying very mean things about people who have done absolutely nothing to her. She tries really hard to be the best, and thinks her meanness makes her look cute. I know Karen on "Will and Grace" is funny, but it is TV, and if you are that unhappy and bored with life, changing the attitude could improve your own life.\nAnother girl I know pretends to know everything, but doesn't. She is insecure about her looks, and though many people call her ugly, it doesn't stop her from acting ugly. Her voice is like a crow's call and when she talks, everyone knows it is her, because she is so loud and it is almost always negative. She is really good at her job, but has a tendency to make people miserable. If she is happy, she could have fooled me. On the other hand, her negativity about others makes her look really put together.\nSo I guess what I am saying is, clothes can't hide everything. You can have everything, put down anyone and the only thing that really shows is your unhappiness and pain. We all have a tendency to sit in judgment of others, but it becomes a different story when your personal unhappiness and insecurities begin to stain your environment. What I have come to realize is that misery loves company. People will try and make others as miserable as they are. Instead of judging these people we should feel sorry for them. Because if they push kindness away, they don't have much else but clothes. And when they fall on their own swords, the only thing they will have given to anyone is the clothes that get donated when they are gone.\nSo if you are depressed, seek help. If you are unhappy, go talk to someone. I am not being funny, just honest. In my opinion the most unfashionable way to be remembered is making others around you miserable, because people will wear your expensive clothes and dance on your grave.