[Amanda31527]

Wow- where to start. Ok i am going to go thru all sides of this. In junior high and high school I was ‘deemed’ popular. To me and my friends, we just kinda of laughed it off. We had done nothing to “be popular”. It something people label you as. People don’t go around asking to be popular, its even evident is small children. There will always be a group of kids that people look up to. It’s so hard to tell what makes people perceived in certain ways. Now you are stereotyping all of us as “completely vain and conceited, not to mention shallow”. Not that is just wrong. You are talking about particular people here and maybe in a certain grade. I must admit, most girls in junior high are mean and spiteful. But as you get into high school, especially your last two years, it gets so much better. People start to realize that looking up to the popular people isn’t going to make them any better of a person, and in fact it just waste your time. Frankly, a lot of time I didn’t want to be deemed popular because people put such mean title on you. You think your get the rough end of the deal, try to deal with people every day that hate you because they want to be in your circle, or people constantly being fake and friendly, just to be part of my crowd. I just wanted people to like me for who I was. Sure I had my friends and we spent a lot of time together but we all had our own other friends who people called “dorky”. Now this I couldn’t understand because there was nothing wrong with them. Maybe because they weren’t in right sports or had the right friends, but they have just as much as fun as I do. Trust me, it gets better for you. People realize that life isn’t about being popular. If you spend years chasing people to be in the right crowd, you’ll only be left unfulfilled. You will have missed out spending great times with people that like you for you. Never on a job application with they ask you, “were you popular in high school?” I can look back and say, it would be have been different if I hadn’t spent all my time trying to look good for everyone. Just to be able to get dressed in the morning how ever I wanted, hung out with anyone, and not cared how I acted or how people were looking at me. Just to be carefree. The bottom line is, don’t judge people on what other people call them (popular), be true to your self, don’t loose track of your real friends to follow some group, and high school gets better

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Name : Amanda31527, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Methodist, Age : 18, City : Columbus, State : OH, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : High School Diploma, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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