life is a funny thing

Step back, just for a second or for an hour. Just take the time to look around you outside of your normal viewpoint. The world looks different from a third person perspective. A girl at my school showed me this a few weeks ago and I thought it was amazing. Everything that people do looks ridiculous from a different viewpoint. There are the girls in the circle of the court yard gossiping and trying out a new member for their “click”. The new girl is obviously miserable and uncomfortable, but apparently being part of this circle is worth it. Then there are the cool guys on a corner, another boy (probably the nicest one in the school) tries to talk to them, and they pretend to listen and then ignore him and force him out of the circle. The boy leaves and finds a different group of nicer people to hang out with, boys and girls alike are hear, they have decided that happiness is better than popularity and they all stand together laughing. The girl in her new circle is still miserable but popular. The truth is that high school and even the world are funny places. The nicer people are better to be around but apparently being nice isn’t cool so they are not popular, but there are actually as many of them as the supposed popular kids. What does this tell me? Viewpoint is everything. The nice ones are the ones that I would call popular because they are the ones that I could talk to and not feel like screaming at. The next time you feel awkward take a step back and you wont. Being cool is in our head anyway, but the nice people are truly cool. Oh and if anyone from my school reads this know that at lunch if you see me alone it is because I am a lonely outcast, it is because I enjoy watching dumb people create their own misery when they would be welcome 20 feet away.