Throughout school we face it. It isn’t a subject and it isn’t an assignment. However, we are graded on it, like it or not. And this grading process isn’t done by the teachers, but by the students. Especially peers. It’s the topic of popularity.

Popularity, to most people, is what someone looks like, or the way someone dresses, or if someone is funny, which is understandable because everybody enjoys a good laugh. However, you can’t help what you look like, or really the way you’re dressed. So why is it that people gravitate towards the good-looking few or those who can afford the most expensive clothes? Why not those who are friendly, and accept you for who you are? You could be friends with someone who you think has good looks. However, the two of you should be friends because the person is nice and likes you for who you are, not because of the person’s looks.

But honestly, we are all popular to someone, aren’t we. We all have friends that may think that we’re popular, but do we think that we’re popular ourselves? Most would say no. But when all of us are “popular” in some way shape or form, are any of us actually popular? So let’s really think here. What’s the point in popularity? There is none.

~Alex Kavadas