[SECRET POST #1611]

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⌈ Secret Post #1611 ⌋



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Notes: technophile had to work late today!


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14. http://oi53.tinypic.com/2rggpxt.jpg

[hikari87.livejournal.com]

Eh, you just sound like you want more attention than you get. Nothing wrong with that.

[(Anonymous)]

I was with you until you said you'd rather be worshipped than have good friends. Congratulations, as far as I'm concerned, you're already a snob.

(Not even gonna touch on the "less-than-neurotypical" note...)

op

[(Anonymous)]

You caught onto the point of the secret. I want to be like them, and it bothers me because I feel like it makes me automatically a shallow bitch. Does wanting to be like these plastic stereotypes mean I don't love my friends as much as I think I do? I don't want to be the kind of person who would give up her friends and that's what bothers me, that maybe I am that person deep inside, just because of how much I want the rest of the "Hollywood popular" life.

Re: op

[(Anonymous)]

Well, real life isn't a high school drama, and I don't think it has to be an either or.

You can be popular, or even widely admired, without being snobby. You can have admirers as well as sincere friends - and who's to say that admires can't be sincere friends? Also, "make new friends but keep the old" - you can hang out with the popular crowd and also with the nerdy crowd.

[stunt-muppet.livejournal.com]

Makes sense to me; you don't have to work to maintain worshippers the way you do a friendship. You don't have to work or think to just have possessions and material status. It's a fantasy of having everything come easy, and it's pretty common.

[(Anonymous)]

I think thats part of what its like BEING a 'unique' individual. You have to be weird and somewhat uncomfortable in your own self. I think it just reaffirms that unless you magically forget how to be self-aware (and you seem pretty self-aware) you're going to stay the person you are, not popular and not worshipped.

On the other hand, the more charismatic a person is, the more magnetic their personality. so maybe work up a bunch of fake self confidence and you'll get those worshippers, elitist!bro. that's what I did, haha!

[captainprowler.livejournal.com]

And this involves Club Penguin somehow...? (Also I can kinda see where you're coming from.)

op

[(Anonymous)]

I just got the pic searching "popularity" on Google Images.

Re: op

[captainprowler.livejournal.com]

Heh wow I wonder what exactly makes penguins so popular then.

[tei-0.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't want it as a permanant lifestyle, but it's pretty damn seductive when you're watching or reading it. Like, I am kind of in love with Massie Block from The Clique. And Regina George. And oh god what are those people from Gossip Girl, um, Serena? Y'know! It's a fun mindset until it runs up against the actual world :P

[(Anonymous)]

You're imagining a life that doesn't exist. One of my biggest pet peeves is the "Hollywood" image of friendship among popular kids - to quote Heathers "They're like people I work with and our job is being popular and shit." This is NOT true. Take it from me, I was {gasp} popular in high school. My friendships were true and meaningful. Years later, I'm still friends with many of those people. We've seen each other grow through college, careers, marriages, babies, etc. We are actual friends - believe it or not. It's actually kind of insulting that people assume that our friendships were shallow and meaningless because we were "popular". That shit means nothing once you walk out of high school.

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry in advance for the essay.

I get you completely! When I watched Veronica Mars my favourite episodes were the ones where she and Lilly were popular and happy. I love Gossip Girl. It took me ages to get into Glee because it wasn't about the popular kids. Mean Girls and Bring It On are still some of my favourite movies. I achieved moderate popularity back in high school and am currently exactly where I wanted to be when I was fifteen - at college, partying a lot, being really pretty. And I have three pieces of advice:

1. worth it.

2. overrated.

3. go for it! :)

And to explain... I feel like I spent a lot of my high school life trying to become someone I knew I could be, but wasn't yet, and maybe in that sense I was a bit of a poser. And I'm okay with this. The part of me that wants this is just as valid as any other part and nobody should be able to tell me how best to be myself. I would never have been happy if I'd never tried, and even though I'm happy now for completely different reasons, I think it was a really important part of my growing experience.

That said, being a popular person type is actually quite overrated. Firstly, being snobby is mean. This actually took me a really long time to figure out, though I'm told that most people understand it intuitively. A lot of the stuff conventional popularity demands - like having people be jealous/afraid of you, being snobby, being dismissive and elitist - they're fun, but they're also not very nice. For a long time I preferred to be the kind of things I'd idealised, even though they weren't nice, but I woke up one morning recently and thought "why don't I be nice sometimes?" and I've been trying this ever since and frankly I prefer it. That said, I don't regret my (popular phase? what would you even call it) and I completely understand the charm.

In conclusion: it sounds like this is something you want, and if possible you should go for it. If not, you should keep watching shows about popular people if they make you happy. Wow, so, not sure why I just spent so long anonymously encouraging you to be popular, since that's not even what your secret was really about, but uh... whatever it is you want from life, I hope you have it? Yay!