Don't get me wrong being popular isn't an easy job. It is all consuming to have to put forth that kind of effort. Those years of middle and high school are topsy turvy and almost an out of body experience. and not just for the kids feeling ostracized....like any war, it's damaging even to the winners. Sometimes though what might seem like the winner ends up being the one that falls flat on their face. Being all that to that many people can't last forever. Most times these kids peak in high school and hit a slippery slope down with nothing to look forward too. They have already experienced so many things on fast forward that when real life hits they are bored. They figure out that the friends they thought they had latched on to them to climb the social ladder. They realize that the boy that they thought loved them for forever just used them as a trophy. After graduation all bets are off.
Yet as I look at the parent's of the kids that I would consider the popular ones I see that the circle continues. The parents are what their kids will be in 35 years. Still high and mighty but now maybe a little sad.
AND yes (before someone points this out) a close runner up for the title of this post is: Yep I Am Bitter
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After reading your comment on Bulldog momma i knew I would like your blog...and not to disappoint, I do. Your girls are beautiful.
Ugh, and this post, brings me right back to the 7th-12th grade hell. Always trying to be "popular" so freakin demanding. Shoot a career in advertising is less demanding. Here's to the woman who have emerged from this era of cheerleader wannabees and football star crushes unscathed with heads held high and only slightly "bitter."
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