PRADA: A Gen-Z’s guide to good vibes
I’m currently listening to Prada by RAYE on repeat, dancing around my home naked and alone, lifting my hands as if in worship and today’s Sunday.
22, I’m in Paris, baby
Got strippers tits in my face, uh-huh
Pull up in a Bentley, I want Christian, I want Fendi
I want Prada
What can I say? I love the song!
Weird inspiration for a post but at this stage, I’ll take whatever gets me writing. I won’t say I haven’t been inspired to create at all recently, but there’s this little thing called “vibe”.
Vibe, or properly put, vibration. You might know it as a woke term, a Gen-Z slang, except that’s not all it is, at least not to me.
I have been experiencing some significant adjustments and going through a very difficult time lately, in summary, bad vibes. One thing that you probably agree with me on, is that vibes are catching, either good or bad. The thing is, bad vibes in particular are especially stubborn and harder to shake off. Let me take a cue from the pastors in church and use examples.
Two scenarios;
- Rewa is facing difficulties at home. Her friends invite her out to take her mind off it. They hang out, enjoy their time, and for a few hours, it works — she’s genuinely happy, for a few hours
- Rewa feels good today, she just got some good news and went over to share it with her friend only to find her in tears dealing with a major family emergency.
The deflation in that moment is instant, and it takes significant effort, often accompanied by a lot of time, to return to the positive vibration you were on before. Bad vibes tend to linger longer and need little invitation to creep back in even when you’ve done and are doing your best to banish it.
All this story to say, permit me if I’m hanging tightly to “Prada” to hold on to my good vibe today.
Most of the work I’ve created recently either by writing or through other media I’ve realized carries a tinge of what I’m feeling because, at the end of the day, I cannot give out what I don’t have.
As the song says, I’m 22, although I’m not in Paris or anywhere close to where I wanna be. I do want Fendi and Prada though and I intend to get it. How? I’m gonna work hard for it as you do with most things in life when you’re not privileged to have them handed to you. If I’m going to put in the work for Fendi and Prada, how much more my good vibes?
I’ve got 4 months left in my 22nd year and I’m going to spend the rest of it chasing a high. It might sound strange to ‘chase a high,’ but why not? If I don’t do it at 22, when will I? If I can sustain good vibes for this long, it might just become a lifelong habit. So here’s the start of a series of work that will contain good vibes only. Should I call it “A Gen-Z’s guide to good vibes?” Yes, I will.
Ending notes (AKA Things that have nothing to do with the post but I’m itching to say):
1. This is entirely different from my previous style of writing. I am almost shocked at how much I’m not censoring as I usually would, almost.
2. Trigger warning: If you didn’t like this one, you most likely won’t like the next one and then the one after.
3. What’s your go-to song that lifts your spirits?