Levels of Society

Where do you stand in society? Where do your friends stand in society? Society has tricked itself into believing that there are certain people to hang around and certain ways you "have" to act around others to fit in. Its funny because no matter how much you try not to be a part of it you're always going be on a "level of society". I didn't notice this until last year after I joined the cheerleading squad. There were a lot of people expecting me to change and become stuck-up, but I stayed the same.

I've always considered myself to be "popular" no matter how many people knew me no matter who loved or hated me. The group I hang around are the ones to be known to have a bad reputation or known to the "dirties".....now in a way I can see why we're labeled that, but still why label those who have less then us. After joing the cheerleading squad I was expected to change to hang around "popular" people. I stuck to hanging around my friends the ones everyone considered to be "dirty" or have a bad reputation. I did that because it wasn't the "popular" people encouraging me to try out for cheerleading to do the thing I love doing. It was my friends who told me "go for it!" "show em your moves!" "make us proud!" and it wasn't the "popular" people who had a heart full of pride or who rewarded me with warm loving hugs. It was my friends.

I guess cheerleaders aren't suppose to hang around the "dirties" because it makes them look bad or whatever. But I'm determined to make Kennedy not have the stuck up reputation they have. My mom once told me "it only takes one person to make a change, one person to make a spark" My old principal Dr. Plagman once told me "everywhere you go people are going to look up to you and want to follow your actions just like they did your mom" Back then I didn't listen even last year I didn't grasp what I was told the way I needed to. I guess you can say that I didn't become a member of my own group until school started once more.

Now that I walk the halls and the streets of Cedar Rapids I see how people are judged, labeled because of who they are. Things need to change, but its not...at least not yet. When people are labled it spreads like a virus some areas are harder to convince then others.

I know I make it seem like I've never label people, but I do I try not to and its something I'm going to continue working until I can look at someone without judging them without knowing them.

Quiz Yourself

1. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear about someone under age drinking or doing drugs?
2. What do you say when some who's not in your "clique" tries to sit with you or tries to talk to you?
3. What's your opinon on those who do thing differently then you do?
4. Do you try and meet with people who others consider "dirty"?
5. Why do you think people are labeled the things they are?

Review your answers be honest. Help change the ways of society, don't be one of those people who think they're better then others because you have more.