Fast, colourful, perky, angsty, cheeky, dynamic, in-your-face silly tween girls. It's not boring. But not revolutionary or new by any means. Which is not to it's average. Or maybe it is. But that's fine. I liked it.
It's relatable I guess, although for me it's through a more mature lens. As in I can understand it now, although I didn't necessarily feel it at the same age. I come from a mid-size town and I somehow always had the prospect of moving to the capital city, which luckily is very close for me. As for the dread of an average, boring, meaningless life surrounded by like-minded average people, I never felt that. We were still a struggling country and we had other worries and priorities. Life didn't feel comfortable, so getting bogged down in my comfort zone was never likely, because childhood and teenhood were never comfortable for me, it was always an awkward age of feeling out of place that I needed to overcome. I did dread being average in high-school, but I think a lot of teens do, like that terrifying fear of being the most boring person ever, I suppose that's why we're so extra in those years, asserting and creating our personality on the go, and thank god I got over that because 1. It was exhausting and 2. I must he been insufferable to the outside world. And 3. I am nothing like my teenage self now. I hope none of us are, for humanity's sake.
Anyway, my point is I understand some of what these girls or the protagonist-narrator is feeling, but a lot of it is intellectualized understanding. I now strongly believe there's nothing wrong with living an average life to the outside world as long as you have a rich (enough) inner life that you are content with. Whether you keep that to yourself or you share it with a select number of people that you trust is up to the person. But most of us are objectively boring and that's ok. Society makes us do boring jobs to be able to afford a boring livelihood. But that's better than no livelihood.
