.:hmm:.

you know, some people have made great concessions and sacrifices to become popular. of the popular kids i know, or have known, i can't really say anything ill of them; yet i cannot really speak ill of anyone, or i try not. but the sacrifices for popularity still strike me as some what baffling. i have seen girls go from sweet, innocent girls, to fake, licentious young women. i have seen them give up that which they held most sacred, be it their grades, their virginity, their honor, their money. yet that is something which they will have to reconcile with themselves one day, if at all. while these sacrifices are theirs alone to make, it is right, wrong or indifferent, a decision solely their own. what i wonder about, however, is not why they would give up that which they value most, but why for such a fleeting goal. it is often a celebration of those values most mundane.
popularity in high school lasts for four years, if she is even lucky enough to be popular for the whole reign. thus, they sacrifice themselves for four years of acknowledgment, of recognition, and of fear at times. yet, after their four years of reign, they are thwarted into college, a place where no one knows them, where they must remake themselves and sacrifice once more those values lost years before. college is no longer a 7 period day, no longer limited to 2,000 students, no longer a stage upon which to act out their lives. sure, they may join a sorority, date the quarterback, be the star cheerleader. yet out of the thousands of students, they are but a mere decimal, an infinitesmal member of the school.
few, if any, will ever make it to some sort of nation wide celebrity. rather those of us who sacrificed a party every weekend for a test, or for some other less mundane hedonist pleasure, we will enjoy some sort of celebrity sooner through our achievements, be them political, economic, medical, social.