Sorry I really couldn't help myself but put that as my title for this post! Sorrynotsorry lol, I love that song.
So from the title, haha, the most amazing title for this post, I want to talk about popularity. Or, I guess like, social groups/cliques at school. I found this a pretty interesting topic to talk about because if you are a student at school, or you watch movies that involve school, or even if you read teen/YA books, you'll almost always see the use of cliches and labels of students.
To be honest, I never really noticed social groups and cliques at my school until this year... Maybe I only saw it this year because I was always so clueless, or maybe I was too stubborn to accept the fact that every person at school has some kind of label on them. Now that I know that we have these "social groups", I start getting curious about where I am placed on the spectrum, or where I am on the "social hierarchy" at school.
I don't think I necessarily fit into a certain "crowd". You all know the cliches: the popular kids, the nerds, the geeky tumblr people, the athletes, the "goths and emos"... it can go on. I don't feel like I belong into any of the groups, but I'm sure that others think that I do.
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to be more "recognized" at school by other people? Do you ever wonder if you're popular? Do you think about how you are seen as by others?
To be honest, I have. I would think about why I'm not "popular", why and how I don't fit into that crowd, why we are kind of labelled in a way. How come we don't really like, intermix?
The same time I had this subject in mind, I had this like, talk/conversation with a friend of mine and one of my teachers. The subject of school popularity and social groups was brought up. It was really insightful. My teacher said that if we ever felt like, somewhat inferior to these "popular" kids, it's really easy to ignore that, and forget about the lines that divide us.
And... it kind of did work for me. I mean, thinking about popularity and social groups isn't necessarily bad, or a problem. It's just that it's not a priority, and it doesn't really matter. But now, even though I can still see the divided groups, I don't really worry about what my "label" is. It doesn't matter, right? To be honest, I think we're all the same. I'm friends with people from different groups and it's really fun to see how similar and different we are.
Anyways, this was a little rant/rambling about what I've been thinking about! What do you think about social groups/labels?
Keep Smiling,
M-L
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