How Do You Be Happy About Being Unpopular?
• Understand that not all popular people in school go on to be successful adults. People who reach their “peak of popularity” in high school, or talk about high school being the best part of their lives, usually have a steep fall when high school ends (they go nowhere). • Look around you at those popular people. Would you really want to be friends with those people? Do you really like what they stand for? How they treat others, and how they make others feel? Would you enjoy doing what they do, all the standard popular stuff, or would you prefer to have a little more depth and variety in your life? • Compare them to your real friends, who might not be the most popular kids in school, but who wouldn’t talk about you behind your back just to be more popular. Value your friends by how much they add to your quality of life rather than how popular they are. • Remind yourself that being popular does not guarantee good grades, honest friendships, or people who would care about your well being,
