Popularity

Every school has them - the popular crowd. At some schools, the popular people are nice, and are liked for who they are. But at other schools, the popular people are liked for their looks and clothes.

I think that it’s wrong for some popular people to be liked for their appearance. Popularity should mean that you have a lot of friends because you’re a nice and likeable person. But at the same time, I think that some people judge the popular people too quickly. I know a lot of people that automatically think that a person is mean, stupid, or rich just because they’re popular. That’s not true. Sure, there are a lot of popular people at schools who are like that. But there are also some that are nice and smart. I made the mistake of judging a popular person before I’d ever talked to her. A lot of her “friends” gossiped about her behind her back, and I took all that gossip to heart. But when I found out she was in my classes, I actually found her to be really nice, and now we’re really good friends.

People that are truly popular and are liked for who they are aren’t generally called popular. I don’t know why it’s like this, it’s one of those things called irony . But people whose friends aren’t real and are liked because of what they look like are called popular. This is really messed up. It should be switched. You can be pretty and popular in a good way too, but a popular person shouldn’t just be pretty, and nothing else.

In a way, I kind of feel a little sorry for the people called “populars.” My popular friend I mentioned earlier has said she hates being called “a popular” to her face. She’s also hates the sterotypical stuff, like how everyone thinks that all populars don’t eat any food at lunch, and all populars are mean and snobby. This is true for some people, but not all.

For most people who live up to the sterotypical version of a popular, popularity is game, a contest, to see who can have the most friends. But when you think of popularity like that, you’ll never really have true friends.For me, it’s not about how many friends I have, it’s about who my friends are. If you think of friendship that way, you’ll be as popular as you need to be.