[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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Comments

[(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!