I wonder how many of you would grasp the chance to be popular if it was right in front of you.
Imagine if it was right there; a sign on the school bulletin:
Recruiting new members into our super popular friendship group! Any geek accepted - we will transform you.
Would you take it?
Would you even glance?
Would your eyes widen so much that they almost pop out of your head!?
Imagine
that... The opportunity to be popular... Leave all your 'geek' past behind, become somebody else, live a life of popularity...
I thought about this today.
In my friendship group at school, we're not exactly the most popular people.
We're eccentric and different - 'quirky', you might say.
We have many friends, and we're all close within our group and get along well (most of the time!). However, we're not exactly the coolest kids around.
That's okay, though, because we have each other. However lame it sounds, it's true, and it's nice to know that we have a group of friends who can always support each other no matter what, knowing that we're all in the same position.
There are friends recently within our friendship group that have slowly moved away from us. They've sidled over to a more 'popular' group of people who don't participate in perhaps the most sensible of things.
This made me consider the word
popular. What does this word mean, and why do we use it?
Watching those people who were my friends tag along with those stupid and egocentric people made me think that they really weren't popular at all.
Their status within the school now hadn't altered. They were just the same as they were before, just participating in things that I view as completely idiotic, ignorant and self-harmful.
As they tagged along with their newly found 'friends', acting all big-headed with their rebellious ways and their harmful habits, I really thought about this word, and I thought to myself:
You stupid people! You're not popular at all!
Why hadn't I seen this before!?
It's not being 'cool' that makes you popular.
Cool isn't even a relevant word!
Being 'popular' should mean something to
you. It should be about having an ideal amount of people surrounding you that love and care for you for who you are, not the stupid things you do.
You should be 'popular' and 'liked' because of your personality.
You should be surrounded by people that treat you like somebody who should be valued in life, and care for your needs.
You should be included in what you do, not left to tag along or watch from the side.
This is what popular really means to me.
So I beg to you, fellow geeks.
If you have a group of people similar to you who really care - even
one friend who treats you the way you should be treated - then
please do not trade the gift God has given you for something that won't even mean anything to you in a few years to come.
You have love and care and support in your life.
What more could you wish for?
Love to you all,
Best wishes,
Elly. xox <3
