I was just thinking..
I go to a small school. Like, it’s REALLY small compared to all the other schools in America, I would say that there’s about twenty four people in our year right now. Yep. I’ve always wanted to go to one of those big sort-of-intimidating-but-exciting-looking high schools where you can meet new people almost every day and everything is just so huge and busy. Everyone has a ‘place’ and you can experience a ton of new things - it just seems like such an exciting way to grow up!
But then I thought how happy I am right now, with everyone I love. And how if you took all my friends and I, and just put us in some huge American high school, we’d probably never even get to know each other. I mean, we’re all so DIFFERENT! Some of my friends are complete contradictions to one another - like Athanasia, she’s pretty quiet, studious and sweet. She’s short, studies constantly, wears glasses and braces and takes a lot of things very seriously. I absolutely adore her! Then there’s someone like Kendra. She’s loud, spontaneous, hilarious and badass but again, still an adorable person. And we’re all such good friends, but any other school would put us all in completely different ‘cliques’; for how we act, whether we wear make-up or not, how we dress, the kind of humour we have, or what we like to do.
Especially if our school was non-uniform - the groups of friends at our school would be totally different then. There’d be the conservative and the non-conservative, the designer labels and the second hand stuff. You know?
And the reason why all this is relevant, is that I was just thinking, the next time you walk down the school hallway and see someone you would never talk to because they hang out with different people or dress funny, in another situation, they could have been your best friend. Every single person you pass tomorrow probably have a ton of qualities that would make them someone you’d adore! But half the time, you’ll never get to know them, because of the barriers that cliques and groups and stereotypes bring. And it’s sad really, because each of those people could have been a friend. SO, I think that tomorrow, when you catch a perfect stranger’s eye, you should just smile, and brighten their day. And know that half the people you judge as either below, above or just plain opposite to you, has something beautiful in them, it’s just whether you choose to notice it or not.
