After secretly staring at the popular kids and their tables for some time now, mainly because I was alone at lunch with all my other friends in a Noon Hour at the time, I've come to thinking about them. I'm wondering what makes them popular. Well, a lot of them were popular way back in elementary school, so they have a lot of prior experience. About 90% of them are "good looking, athletic, and hot," according to my fellow classmates that I sometimes overhear talking about in various classes. And, really, very nearly all of them like each other either because they have cool-looking clothes on, have good hair, or are athletic in some way. It sickens me. I try to be as far away from them as possible. And yet..... sometimes I feel like I want to be there too, if I wasn't so nerdish. But I'm trying with all my might to fight this feeling. I like to think of popular kids as books. Ever heard the expression, "Don't judge a book by its cover?" Of course you have. Well, the popular kids have flashy, overdone covers that immeditately catch someone's passing glance. However, when you open up the book, you find that the story is lame, stupid, or just something you have absolutely no interest in. This has to stop. Now.
Finally, I have an issue worth posting on the Napper News. Should we Nappers try to fight them (not physically, of course), and make
ourselves popular? Should we stay the same and be ignored by pretty much everyone except ourselves? Or, should we stoop to their level and try to be popular like them? I am getting the feeling more than often lately to do something to try to be popular, but the other, stronger side of my brain beats back that thought with brutal force. I know that I am having as I type this post a strong, internal conflict. I can't take the pain anymore! I also know that if I
do become popular, or start to hang out with the popular kids, I feel like I will be betraying all the Nappers nationwide, being the subject of cruel posts on the Napper News and Talking Blogs for months and months to come, and going against every rule with popularity that I established with myself years ago. I fear that I'm starting to get to that level, especially in band. From what I've observed, just about everyone (except for most of the sixth graders) know who I am, and how advanced I am with the alto, and soon to be tenor, saxophone. More and more eighth graders are talking to me, along with more seventh graders who typically refer to me as "that one alto player." We need to act now, or my dark side that goes against all the Napper laws that were never established will break free, and all that I used to stand for popularity-wise will crumble beneath my feet.
