I am not really sure what crosses peoples minds when they decide that they are going to intentionally hurt someone for no reason. Whether it be their nature, some long-term hatred or boredom - I still can't understand why.
No matter what you do or say in this life you are going to be judged for it - positively or negatively, the judgement will be there and there is nothing we can do about it. Everything we do in life is constantly monitored by the people around us. We live in a society where there are "safe zones" and "danger zones". These safe zones are where you have to stick within the rules of society, do as everyone else does and you won't be noticed or picked out from the crowd - you won't be picked on or judged. You step into the danger zones by sticking out of the crowd then you're judged straight away. I feel that no matter how much campaigning we do about "anti-bullying" and no matter how many children we educate, it will always happen. It will be an on-going fight for the rest of our lives, which of course is bad news for people like me.
I have always stuck out from the crowd, not for bad reasons I just tend to go against everyone else's "normal" way of living. If there even is a "normal" way of living. No, I don't mean the clothes I wear or music I listen to. I am talking about my personality and voice. I'd love to think I have an abnormal way of thinking and I can inspire people with these flushes of inspiration or these crazy, weird ideas. Life would be boring for me if I wasn't ape shit crazy. I've been with people (yes, plural) who no longer want to be with me because I am "weird" but that has never stopped me being who I am, or doing what I love. For my whole life, I have had people attempt to bring me down for doing things I love and in some cases it has worked. People don't really understand how much words burn someone - the power a few words can possess could destroy someones life and people simple do not understand the severity of such phrases. For example this blog, I love writing in the hope that it will help people one day and when I grow up and ease into the world of adulthood, English is the career I wish to pursue. But someone came along and shattered these hopes and dreams with their negative opinion/judgement. And momentarily I wanted to stop writing forever.
However, people are entitled to their opinions and we should all fully accept that. What isn't okay is when people want to share these opinions in the hope of bringing someone down. This is what I don't understand - why would anyone want to purposely upset someone for doing something they love or being who they want to be? It couldn't possibly be someones nature to want to hurt people, I don't think anyone really has the ability to want someone to feel pain. A long-going enmity against someone - this is fully understandable but seriously? Grow some balls and move on. This is the real world, we don't have time for enemies and on-going fights. And boredom? If you are sat there and HURTING people out of boredom, then you my friend are going to grow up a lonely soul. Trust me.
For those of you who are like me and do get put down for doing something you love or being who you want to be, or for simply stepping into the danger zone...don't be disheartened. Most of all, DON'T STOP being who you want to be and doing what you love. After all...if people didn't do what they wanted to do because someone else thought it was stupid, then the world would be a pretty boring place. Even though I have been brought down many times, I am still going to prevail with my head held high. There are always going to be people who don't like you or the things you do and hey, that's their problem. If they have nothing better to do than bring you down, then you have to question who really has the advantage?
We're always going to be judged on everything we do and say - positively and negatively, there is no escape, that's just life. But without people prevailing and pursuing their ambitions the world would be a rather boring place.
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"You mean I can put anything here and it'll be in the yearbook?" Today was our last official day of school, we still have exams, leavers day and prom but it was still rather emotional all the same. Shirts were plastered with colorful "good lucks" and "I will miss you" whilst pictures were snapped up for our memory forever. After 5 years together I will admit that it is sad to have watched everybody grow up and move on. But then...what we were all thinking? That we could stay in school forever? For the majority of our lives we spent hours upon hours praying that we could finish school and time would just hurry up - now that time has come and we all find ourselves clinging on with our fingertips. Because you don't really understand how important something is until you don't have it anymore.
The majority of my year is actually attending 6th form, so the emotional side of losing people wasn't as great as the idea of leaving school into higher education. However - this day just made me think, in another 2 years we are going to have to do this all again - but then it will be the final goodbyes. People are going to head off to college or work. Committed relationships are going to form and babies will be born and marriages will taken place and I am not sure I am ready to step into the future of adulthood just quite yet. It seems all those years I spent crying over the fact that time wasn't going fast enough I now wish I could go back and relive. Oh, we all wish that we could have a time machine and go back and tell our former self "stop crying and grow some balls - some day your gonna miss having no responsibilities and the world being your playground" because when you get older, the world is no longer a playground of imagination and adventure...it's a scary abyss of jobs, taxes, housing and growing up. When I said I am not ready to grow up and enter this new world of responsibility and adulthood - I seriously meant it. I would never, ever be financially stable, I have a part time job and as soon as I get paid the money it's gone in an instance - how will I ever afford to eat when I am older? I have tried to be responsible with money, trust me, but there are just so many things to buy that I never had the joy to do so before a job - we've all been there. Romantically I am freaking out - I know that eventually one day I am going to have to settle down, the thought of walking down a made-up aisle in a disgustingly long white dress both excites me and scares the crap out me. I am not ready to completely and utterly sign myself over to someone else. I know I am in a committed relationship and those things are supposed to last forever but still, I am 16 - I shouldn't have to feel that fear yet. The fact of the matter is - I don't think anyone is ready to kick-start our lives for real. And we don't have to. Time seems like it's travelling at the speed of light right now but we have the ability to slow time down. I was in the gym today, running on the treadmills is extremely boring with nothing else to draw your attention to. So I found myself staring at this large black and white clock before me and my imagination and inspirational thoughts start flowing. "Look how slowly time is moving" I thought to myself...I am running and running but that thick black line is moving around the clock slower and slower the more I stared. I realized that whilst I was running on that treadmill in a gym full of sweaty human beings that I really didn't want to be there. Not entirely because it was exercise but because that clock was moving slowly for me, it was giving me the chance to do what I wanted with my time and to spend every minute the way I desire. Because time is going to run out...and did I want to spend it running on a treadmill? It was that inspiration that had me running for a different destination, a different destiny, a different place for me to be to spend my time. What we all need to realize is that we can't stop time. The hands on the clock will keep spiraling round and round eternally. We can't go back and relive all those days we had at school and we can't stop the fact that we will eventually ease into the world of adulthood. But what we can do is choose how to spend each minute. The clock may appear to be going fast, but the more you really look, the slower it is. That is designed for us. We need to make every second count, we need to enjoy every breath. So stop worrying about adulthood or the next year of education, stop fretting over your last days at school and enjoy! Enjoy every single moment, grasp every opportunity, do crazy things and regret them later, don't leave any word unsaid. Time is yours. "Happiness depends upon ourselves" is one of the motivational quotes plastered across my wall to help me stop procrastinating when it comes to revision for my exams. But the more I think about it, the wider meaning it has to me personally. Revising for my exams now and doing well is going to help with my happiness in the future, getting the right job so I never have to work a day in my life and therefore being economically stable to explore the world as I wish to do. But what is dependent on my happiness right now? Because revision isn't cutting it for me. "Shatter my reflection into pieces
cause I can't bare this any longer cut myself on the shards, as I catch the parts to make me stronger. And it was never a dream of mine til I, saw the way she looked in his eyes, now I want to find, amongst this broken mirror, apart of me they'd consider" No matter how hard we try, we're always going to compare ourselves to other people in life. Whether it be on the way they look or their personality, maybe even their lifestyle of friendship cliques. Even if for a moment we compare ourselves, or spend hours agonizing over how we aren't them - we all do it. There is always something about yourself that you wish you could change, maybe a few personality traits or something about your looks that you have always hated. For me, I wish I was more girly - I wish I genuinely acted and dressed liked a girl. It's not that I haven't tried, I have, it's just not me. I always look at other girls and think "holy shit, why can't I be them?" the way they confidently float around in their floral dresses and the way their hair falls perfectly around their shoulders. My hair looks like I have been electrocuted, dragged through a few hedges, thrown out of a plane, landed in a tree and slept there for the night - atrocious I believe is the word. Yet no matter how many times I try and fail, I still cannot accept the fact that I am not like other girls. And this isn't a bad thing - this is just who I am. But sometimes the main problem is, other people are so perfect through our eyes that we can never be content with ourselves. There is also another situation where you can wish you were someone else because someone you wish you could be with, or be friends with likes them instead of you. Now, these are the most childish feelings one could have, but we have to all admit that we have felt this way at least once in our life. It's childish because some of these persons looks or personality traits are something that you personal do not like or agree with, yet you still find yourself wishing that you had them. Just so that you can have the person that likes them. So that it is you making them happy rather than someone else. But I am here to tell you that this is ridiculous and you shouldn't feel this way. If you want somebody to like you - you need to have them like you for you. What's the point in being around somone who doesn't know the real you? Who loves for someone you're pretending to be? You need to accept that maybe that person isn't for you and it just wasn't meant to be, or perhaps try and get them to like you for you. Because that is going to be love, not a love between them and someone you replicated. Furthermore, you shouldn't ever want to be somebody else. I mean, it's okay to have idols and aim to be like them someday or they help inspire you - but wanting to completely be like someone else is not okay. You are beautiful. You should be happy within yourself about yourself. We all have our flaws, these people you want to be like - they have flaws also that they don't like. Who knows - they probably want to be you! You need to learn to love yourself before you can expect anyone else to love you. So next time you find yourself looking at someone else and wishing you were them, look away, find a mirror and then you've finally found the person you want to be. And smile - you should be happy that you're you and not anyone else. So, the other day something very serious happened to me and it got me thinking about the reasons behind it. I mean - there has to be a reason for everything that happens right? A justified reason as to why you did or said something, a justified reason as to why someone did or said something to you? The example I will use, like the majority of my blogs, is when you're in a relationship or friendship.
This isn't the first time this has happened and knowing us it probably won't be the last. But me and my boyfriend were casually laying down having a nice conversation when suddenly he turns to me, looks me dead in the eye and questions whether or not we should be together. WHY does this happen?! It has always confused me and it will continue to confuse me for the rest of my life no doubt. Two people can be in a relationship for years and be head over heels in love and then one day, one of the two will just wake up and decide "I really don't love you anymore." What the fuck triggers in their mind that suddenly stops the love? If nothing has changed you have no reason as to why the relationship should end, why would your brain suddenly just...stop the love? I know I have discussed the idea of love coming from hormones released from your brain - even so what tells these hormones to stop being produced? It cannot be your emotions if your emotions one day love someone and the next don't. You can't fall out of love someone that fast. Its's impossible! You could question that perhaps the relationship or friendship had been going downhill recently, but even so, if you love someone you're going to want to try and work something out to keep it going which is what I did with my boyfriend. I sat down and listed all of the things I can change about myself to keep the relationship alive or to sort out any issues we have. The only probably with him and this problem, that also occurs with a lot of people, is that they are too afraid to talk about how they are feeling or what problems they are having - so they just do what they think is the easiest option to make the problems all go away. Cutting things off. This scares me to death. I promised myself that I would never let anyone close enough to me that without them I wouldn't know who I am anymore. If he just got up and left, I wouldn't have any clue what to do. "I made you my world and you left me with nothing". One day and it will happen eventually, he is going to wake up and those hormones are just not going to be there anymore and he's going to pierce everything I know into nonexistence and then what am I to do? Which is why I am sat here questioning why it happens in the first place? Maybe there is something in the deepest, darkest corner of their mind that they aren't telling you I mean, you could be sat right next to a person and they could feel a miles away. Sometimes these ideas can start as a tiny atom within this empty corner of their mind and they will barely think about it - but like the universe it will expand and expand until eventually there is nothing they can think about and just as you predicted it will implode and those words you felt were unjustified and out of the blue will come spilling out and you're left with nothing but pictures and the smell of their cologne. You shouldn't blame them for this. There is nothing they can do - because I can promise you they probably tried and tried to keep this atom from imploding. But it could happen to you - you may defeat it but not everyone can be as strong. I think we need to accept the fact that everything happens for a reason, but sometimes that reason isn't so clear as we would like it to be. It's just fates way of telling you that...for a while you were heading down the wrong path and they needed to set you straight. Or it was just another heartbreak closer to the one who will finally not have random imploding atoms in their mind. Remember it wasn't you. Sometimes the universe can do crazy things, but hey, we're all a little crazy, right? I woke up this morning feeling utterly sick to the stomach - as if the slightest movement would send a whirlpool of hurl to come racing up my throat and splash miserably all over myself. No - I'm not ill, neither did I eat something funny.
My exams are tomorrow. Exams *shivers run down every single teenagers spines around the UK as that dreaded word echoes through their minds.* It's a very stressful time right now for everyone and in all honestly it's only going to get worse. It's not fair that our futures are now set in place due to some exams that we take when we're 16...well 15 in some cases. Furthermore, it's not fair that everybody is judged on the same skills either. Like that famous picture where they're asking an elephant, monkey and a fish to climb a tree. Of course the monkey will ace it, the elephant will attempt and the poor fish can do fuck all but dream. But I decided to do a blog that was going to warm up and brain and hopefully help everyone in exam period to have a smooth and relaxed set of exams. So here we go: Step 1: You need to set up some sort of motivation for yourself. Think about a reason why you should do really well in your exams, perhaps a dream job you really want to do when you're older, or some big city you want to live. Holidays you hope to venture on. Or maybe just someone that you want to make really proud - that person could even be yourself. You didn't spend the majority of your life in school to flush it down the drain now. Once you have this motivation you may want to write it down somewhere where you can read it everyday. For me, above my desk I have some motivational quotes: "If you're going through hell, keep going" "If not now...when?" "Happiness depends upon ourselves" "True champions are those who get up when they can't" I love these quotations and every time I am procrastinating or I am feeling stressed I read those quotes and really get into the mindset of doing well. Step 2: Structured revision. Make sure you have a timetable of what lessons you are going to revise each day and maybe have an action plan of how you are going to revise them. The funner the better for you. It's also an absolute priority that you include breaks in your structured revision - if you don't take a break then everything that you have revised will dance through your brain and right out your ears. Take it from someone who knows, I was so worried about history I did around 5-8 hours continuously drawing spider diagrams and writing revision cards and when I had finished I stared around at everything I had accomplished and burst into tears. That's right I started crying - because I realized everything I had just done didn't all go in because I didn't take a break and let my brain rest for 15-30 minutes. MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A BREAK. Grab a cuppa tea and cuddle your cat for a few minutes, honestly it will help. Also, make sure you aren't cramming too many subjects into a limited amount of time - within weekdays I advise about 3 hours of revision with half hour breaks between each hour or 15 minutes between each half an hour. It depends what you prefer, I like doing solid hours and then breaks because it's like a school period. Step 3: Before revising, you need to make sure your brain is up and working. Eat breakfast, nothing too big or else you'll start to feel bloated and tired. A nice healthy breakfast, with some fruit or something - I am not good with healthy meals but you get the the gist of things. After this take a little break for the food to go down and then start revising. I prefer to do something that I can physically show to people as an awesome piece of revision, normally spider diagrams with thousands of colors - something I can take into my Mam and say "hey look at my amazing spider diagram, when have you ever seen a spider diagram better than this one right here?" Some people may like to sing their revision, makes raps and limericks. Or perhaps watch some you tube videos about certain topics and makes notes. There are thousands of ways you can revise and make it fun. If you're enjoying it - chances are you're going to better! Step 4: Lastly, stay calm. Exam periods are always the most stressful time of the year but like my wall says "If not now...when?" Just make sure you are keeping it all together, my teachers at school always say "crying gets you no marks" but if letting a few tears out every now and then is going to empty out all the stress and emotion to leave space for revision then hell yeah do it. I know I do it. As long as you are doing your best to keep calm and relieve stress then that's good. I find speaking to other people about my stress and finding out they are stressed too helps me, it makes me feel human. Some people go for a run or just dance around the room to their favorite song. Make sure you're relieving that stress every now and then, because if you hold it all in for ages it's going to burst and if it happens in the middle of the exam...well you know the rest. So, when I woke up this morning feeling sick - I just took a deep breath in and followed these steps. It's always going to be different for everyone but I hope this steps can help you guys out. Remember that it's all going to be over soon and in the end you are going to be extremely proud of yourselves. In 5 weeks, you can all put your pens down for the last time and really feel that pressure release, enjoy prom and leavers day and most of all our fucking twice as long summer holiday! It's going to be pure heaven and we're all doing to deserve it. Good luck for exams everyone, I know you're going to try your best and achieve your utmost best. I'll see you on the other side! "Social anxiety is a discomfort or a fear when a person is in social interactions that involve a concern about being judged or evaluated by others" I haven't always had social anxiety even though it supposedly develops from childhood as a part of your social functioning, however it is now very common in teenagers and even older.
I developed social anxiety probably around the time I started in secondary school and I have many ideas as to why I may have developed it. You see, I've never really been a sociable sort of girl - I always thought it was due to the fact I never really fit in with a clique and despite my best efforts to change and adapt to this new way of living I could never find someone who would love me for me and never leave. Henceforth, I became too stubborn to change and devolved this constant fear of becoming too close to people because...what was the point if everyone was going to just get up and leave one day anyway? Due to the lack of friendships when I was younger I grew accustomed to a life of being alone in crowded hallways and now suddenly when I have started to become more sociable as I have grown older I have anxiety issues. Insecure. I am incredibly insecure and this is what social anxiety revolves around - having an intense fear of what people are thinking about you. Now, whether this developed because I am used to being on my own and therefore I am not sure what people are going to think of me as a person I am not entirely sure - all I know is that I cannot walk into a group of people without feeling like I am going to throw up. Of course you all know my social anxiety cannot be so bad for me to have obtained a relationship for a year - however he has never been a stranger to me so it wasn't so hard for me to sustain a conversation. I have friends also, but friends that have also never really been strangers and have always known me to be this obscure human being. But for example - I once walked into a shop to buy some gum and I saw how big the line was to pay and I just ran out. I couldn't line up to buy some gum because there was too many people and it was too much pressure on my shoulders. Another example was when I went to the cinema and the guy working there asked me how old I was...I started shaking and sweating, I couldn't remember my birthday, I was fumbling for my passport practically in tears. When going swimming and buying my ticket my boyfriend asked "I don't understand...you're just buying a ticket?" and that's the hardest thing for me. Sometimes, I find it extremely difficult to explain why I get these nervous panic attacks when being social - why can't I order my own food in a restaurant? Why can't I walk into a group of people on my own and join in the conversation? Why can't I get on the bus without almost throwing up? I did some reading on it and there is the idea of being watched and evaluated by other people and the "feeling of fear is extremely intense in these types of situations, occasionally causing one to become so worried that he or she feels anxious just thinking about them and will go to great lengths to avoid them." I think that is probably the best way to describe it. So, having social anxiety has created lots of limitations for me. I don't belong to a big social group and I don't have many friends. Rarely do I see the sunshine and whenever my friend does take me out my heart is beating rapidly for the whole time and I'm uncomfortable and I really just cannot wait until I'm in the safe confinement of my bedroom walls. What I want to aspire to other people is not be like me. Do you know how many things you'll miss out on? How many beautiful days you'll never see? And it's not quite the same from the bedroom window as it is being engulfed by the beauty. I realize this and it's taking all I have to go out more frequently and to just enjoy the world. I don't think I'll truly ever get over my anxiety but I have started to see the true limitations and the effects that it is having on me. It's never ever going to go away unless I try and I think that's what everyone with anxiety needs to realize. Obviously, it will take time and effort and I am not expecting you to bound out of the door and smile at every person you see on the way to get on the bus to a restaurant to order your own food and then to the cinema and successfully tell the manager your d.o.b without hurling! One step at the time. Remember, "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself" - I mean...what are we really afraid of? Distance means so little when someone means so much. This is what I like to believe, or what I actually know from experience. However mines not so much distance as it is time. There is not enough time in the day for everything and everyone and sometimes maintaining a relationship can be hard. You forget along the way what defined your relationship because you don't really have time to focus on it anymore. This can cause a lot of problems, specially if you really do love this person and don't want to see them leave - because what really do you have to persuade them to stay if you can't give them the time of day? "We're the perfect couple, we're just not in the perfect situation" Do you really want to give everything up you've built together to wait for a better date? Because I know for sure that the time I spend trying to get over this relationship will equal the amount of time it will take for us to be in the perfect situation which means a pointless broken heart. Firstly, in a relationship where time is limited or there is distance, you both need to establish the fact that it is going to be hard. There is no point in getting yourself into a situation you know you won't be able to handle because that really isn't fair on the other person. Establish it's hard, repetitively remind yourself it's going to be hard...so when you hit the time when it's really hard it doesn't hurt as much because you knew that was how life was going to be. This was my mistake, I never really allowed myself to realize that time was going to be limited, so every time he walked out the door and left me for another week I couldn't quite understand why I wasn't getting used to it. I'd wind myself up. He'd leave on the Sunday and then I spent the rest of the week trying to get used to the fact that he wasn't there and then by the time I was used to it and had stopped being so upset I would see him again. Not long before he would leave and the whole cycle would start again, it's not healthy. This is why you need to establish the struggle first, to allow yourself to understand everything before throwing yourself into a whirlpool of emotions you can't control. Secondly, a vital ingredient for making a long-distance or lack-of-time relationship work you need contact. A quick text, phone call or message just to let them know you're thinking of them. Okay, maybe not obsessively all the time because that's going to lead to the pain of not seeing them worse. But it's good to keep in contact throughout the weeks, let them know how you're doing so that way they aren't worrying about you and you're not worrying about them. If you're not worrying about them then you're not panicking that you aren't with them. This is a major flaw of mine, sometimes I can be annoyingly paranoid, I will text constantly or call just to make sure he is okay when it isn't needed. Thirdly, when you're together - make the most of your time. You both know it's limited so why waste it on your phones messaging people you see all the time? Do something you both enjoy, whether that be just laying in bed and talking, catching up. Or going for long walks considering the weather is nice. Or perhaps go on a date, catch a movie. Anything as long as you are making the most of your time. Every second is precious - you also need to remember that to somebody else, you're lucky. Even though I only see my boyfriend once a week I know that I am extremely lucky to have that compared to other peoples relationships. So, make every second count, always. Lastly, when things get rough, you need to stick together. There will be days where you will wake up and think "is it really worth it anymore?" Those are the days where you guys need to just take a step back and breathe because these are the days where it just gets too hard, the kind of restrictions you couldn't warn yourself about because you just couldn't imagine they'd be so bad. Remember everything you've been through and just how far you've come, there's a reason you have made it this far and that is a reason within itself to keep going. Things may not change for a while and it may get even harder but one day time and distance will clear and you're going to be so grateful for all those days you made it through to finally reach the end of that period in your life. Where I am standing now is that we both realize things are going to get harder for us as we get older and it's going to be a long time before we have a large open calender of time for ourselves - but we're going to prevail because distance/time means so little when someone means so much. I've always found it extremely difficult to make friends. It's not because I am shy or nervous - I am just not very good at forming a friendship with someone, I have no idea where to even start? In primary school I suppose it wasn't as bad because you're younger and when you're young nothing else in the world really matters - as long as you're happy and fighting imaginary dragons with your school friends life was pretty much perfect.
However, in secondary school things get harder, and I mean alot more harder. Finally we're introduced to these absolutely prejudiced, biased and just completely discriminatory cliques. The last thing you need when starting in a school 5 times bigger than your old, with thousands of kids including those horrendously tall year 11's (which is funny looking back to year 7 considering I am in year 11 now and haven't grown in the slightest) is to be judged on who you are and which friends you're allowed to have. Cliques are very stereotypical - people would name the cliques from american teenage Rom-coms. There'd be your 'cool kids' your 'goths' your 'nerds' your 'pretty girl group' your 'average people that walk in the background and don't have any lines' group. To be included in one of these cliques you'd be judged on your looks, fashion, music taste, hobbies, habits...anything from the color of your hair to what you had for dinner last night. And I wasn't prepared to stand and be judged in order to have friends. I wanted someone to like me for me and everything I was, rather than liking me because everything I was happened to fit with their cliques expectations. So, of course I would wander around on my own, dreaming for the cliques to sort of break free and everyone could be who they want to be and be friends with whoever they want, because cliques brings boundaries. Suddenly, certain people cannot talk to others depending on your status - should we have status at the age of 16? Let alone being 11 years old! But that was life back then and there was no way I could make a change, so I excepted the label I was given as I lived in my own clique called "loner." I have been given other labels over the years, "so what are you then? Punk" and I suppose in some stereotypical american Rom-com that yeah, I'd be some of punk kid or goth. But I prefer not to stereotype myself. Why should my clothes define me as a person? Or mean I am classified as a certain label? This is probably why I struggled to make friends because everyone would belong to a label and being a stubborn as I am, I refused to give myself a name other than a human being. Finally, 5 years later things have changed. Suddenly, people are breaking out of cliques and being with people of higher or lower status. People are friends based on personality rather than labels and it's one of the best things to have ever happened. I think we all need to learn that...friendship isn't about how popular you are or what you look like - no matter what you do or say, friendship isn't based around a clique. I for one know this is true because I am still alone. It wouldn't matter if I was super pretty and no matter how nice I am I will always stand alone. Not because I don't belong to a clique now but because I never belonged to one in the first place. How can I break out of a clique and begin to make friends when I never really had a clique to break out of? So what I am suggesting is...maybe if we weren't so prejudiced then everyone would be able to make friends easier? Why should it matter what the grades I achieve or the clothes I wear determine who I can be friends with? I encourage everyone to stop producing these cliques, we don't need to differentiate popular kids from shy kids or intelligent kids from those who are less capable. We just all need to open our minds to the world and realize when the power of love overcomes to love of power, the world will finally know peace. |
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