My Annoyance with High School Drama/Priorities

So I was in line to pay at a store in the mall, when two girls behind me squealed “Oh my god we’re getting so popular now!” They were out buying new outfits to fit their new “popularity.” Man, I thought that only happened on TV! It was the stupidest thing I ever heard.

First of all, being on top of the totem pole is always confused with popularity. I think teens need to look up popularity in the dictionary. It is being liked by many people, not being nasty, bossy, and stomping on many people. Where was the translation lost?

Secondly, the high school totem pole is a bunch of hogwash illusions. Just because you stomp on someone and knock them down doesn’t mean you are at the top of the totem pole. Like I always say, zero is still zero, even with -1 and -2 under it. The high school totem pole only exists in imaginations.

Thirdly, WHO CARES! Honestly, what does it change? What does it give you? Other than hanging out with people that pressure you and stomping on everyone else, what good is it? I would rather hang out with people I get along with and like. I don’t care about ruling others or hanging out with the “cool” people. And the biggest point of all, can you put it on a resume? When you get out of high school (a short three years of a long life) will any of that matter? Will it matter who you hung out with, who you dated, who you put down? Will being “popular” boost your entire life. Will it boost your career? Will it make the rest of your life bliss? Have you wasted so much time on being “popular” that your grades failed? Will you now struggle to get into college? Will you have missed out on extra credit from extra-curricular activities because they weren’t cool? Have you pO’d “nerds” that you may later need to suck up to because they own companies? Do these “popular” peers really care about you? Have you lost all your real friends from ditching them for a “cooler” crowd? Along with all the skills you missed out on getting from being overdistracted and too cool for, you will not learn proper job social skills. These people learn that being rude and mean gets them somewhere; it gives them control. But this is the same behavior that will get them kicked out of class, fired, kicked out of an apartment, etc. WHAT IS HIGH SCHOOL POPULARIY WORTH?!