I've never really thought about it, but my whole life is shaped around this one concept. Popularity. What is popularity? The dictionary gives some long definition about popularity being for the people. I'm not saying that's not true, it's just the popularity I've grown up with is completely different. It's about one group shunning the other.
What makes a person more popular than another? What makes them able to consider themself better than the others? Is it because they're more funny? Or is it because of genes you were born with that can't change? Anywhere you go, there's a popular crowd that sticks out and no matter how much you deny it, there's some part of you that wishes you were them.
I envy those people who act as they aren't affected by them, though. As much as I try not to show in public, there's a huge part of me that wants to be looked at by people, to laugh and gossip with them. I'm not saying I would like to be mean like some of them, it's just some of them seem really nice, and being friends with them just seems...off limits.
A question that my friends and I often bring up is that do popular kids know they're popular? I mean, they do act around as if they're the king of the world and they're so cool, but really. I would love to be one of those people who were popular without knowing it, but I'm just a dork who can't say something funny to save her life. No chance at all for me in this lifetime.
Popular kids are the only people who can slip on ice and still act cool. Double meaning. Try to figure it out.

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