Although I stopped giving myself the label "gyaru" long time ago, I still had these posts in my drafts and I do find they are interesting topics I had picked a while ago and also good points to yap about.
Maybe that's what I currently need: Yapping about things I used to enjoy...maybe to start enjoying them again?
So I just posted the other post that apparently I had finished a while ago and idk why I did not post it.
The topic of today will be more specific, therefore might be short but not less of importance.
This is a topic that maybe more baby gals will relate to than it may seem at first.
It's a topic of loneliness in its core and one that seem contradicting at first for a gyaru.
Like how does someone picture a gal? A big town girlie that likes to have fun, has her circle..
So when you like gyaru and live in a small town with no-one around with the same interests, it can feel lonely at times. I used to replace these with online contacts.
It does help within a certain degree but it cannot replace reallife friendships.
And when the community, as I used to know it, would break down and people would seperate. It felt like it tore gyaru itself down as well.
Now it feels like gyaru lives again but with different people and different communities, somewhere out of my "realm". That's what growing up does to you, I guess.
And you know, maybe it was never about being that picture-perfect gal and more the essence of it.
Sometimes I would find random profiles of girls from japan that are clearly gal or have the spirit of it and I had no idea where they lived but they just lived life I guess.
They had friends, just not gal friends. They had a life, just not how someone would picture it.
And it might sound weird but that's how it should be.
A life being lived. Not a story being told in a perfect way.
Being the only gyaru is just about that.
To be just you.
Another one of those "social media messed this up for us" kind of points and I really feel like an old person having to say it like that.
Stop thinking of how things should be like and enjoy the things you already have.
Put down your phone, your magazine and whatever tells you that you should be a certain way and spend time with your friends, your real friends.
Your family.
Be you.
xoxo rinmero
