"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster." -Frederick Wilhelm Nietsche

Popularity, what a word. I'm not exactly sure if what I think about popularity coincides with what everyone else believes. Popularity is a figment of the imagination. Why do people consider certain people to be popular or unpopular? It's simple, the "unpopular" people look up on the "popular" people because maybe they wear a certain brand of clothes or they have money or they just look cool to them. Have the "unpopular" people ever thought about the reason why "popular" people are considered "popular" or better than them? It's obvious, the only way someone is consider "popular" is if all the "unpopular" people consider them popular.

I have yet to understand why people want to be in the known crowd. What is so great about being well known? Yes, maybe you might go to parties more often or hang out with "popular" people or go to upperclassmen parties but how does that define your self-worth? Most forget to realize that being popular in school is irrelevant when school is over and when they move on to establish their own careers and lives. Your not going to be asked on a job application if you were popular or not. Instead of trying all through your school years to "fit in", why not make the most of your youth and have fun instead of bitching about wanting to be popular. As for the "popular" people, you shouldn't even consider yourself popular or better than anyone else because your not. Take for example an "unpopular" person may get straight A's where as a "popular" person may get F's or C's. Who is going to succeed in life you think? Of course the straight A student. As for the "popular" person, why do you think there grades are so low? Either they are just naturally slow or they don't try because it would be consider "uncool" by their other "popular friends" to get good grades. Now if they were true friends, they would want you to get good grades and make the best of your ability.

Social classes are usually thought of under the terms of society as a whole but I beg the differ. Schools make up society and therefore are part of the society itself. What is taught in schools is administered in society. Of course the common skills that are taught in school such as math, English, history etc. will later help students in their later life but what I myself am trying to point out is the social classes are just as dominant in schools as they are in society as a whole.

Often students will use the term "popular" or "unpopular" or maybe even be as bold as to judge someone if they are "cool" or "uncool". What are these beliefs based on? Wealth, looks and finally personality, if it even plays a role, in separating people by classes of "cool" and "uncool". I have to admit, my stereotype of a "cool" person is one who wears the popular name brand clothes such as Abercrombie, Structure etc. This is foremost my thought on what I would classify these people to be; not name brand clothes, I would initially think they were "losers" but without having even judged them by their character but rather by looks alone.

Two other aspects that have to be taken in affect is one's looks and one's personality. The looks of someone, be it either male or female, also determine their self worth in a school. Naturally if you are an ugly person you would not expect to have many flirtations with the opposite sex therefore people of your sex would know that you do not attract the "good" looking people of the opposite sex making you a less "cool" person to hang out with because you are not attractive in someone's eyes. The third aspect of social class defining at school is one's personality. This, ironically, is the last part of one's character that is looked upon.

Grasping all these concepts, one could conclude that if you are "good looking" and wear the "in" style, your personality is irrelevant to your social status. I have experienced this countless times at school and think it is all rubbish. To determine someone's self-worth by either looks or wealth is, frankly put, stupid.

Such experiences I've observed sicken me to think of how inferior the human race is. An example, a kid, name in question, is considered the complete package of a "popular" person because of his looks alone. Once I got to know this kid I soon realized that he was plainly put, a jackass. His comments were always rude and he had absolutely no respect for the opposite sex at large, thinking of them as mere objects to his disposal. Even to this day, this kid is still in the "in" crowd and he is still a jackass but he will remain in the "in" crowd until he runs out of wealth or he becomes ugly by some way.

Such feeble words I use to describe the social classes in modern day schools are irrelevant because the society of the world is a huge social class. You have your "first world" countries and your "third world" which are defined as advancement in technology, weapons, government etc.

These grievances I state now are of little importence to the world for one man or woman's opinion today is like a grain of salt in the entire ocean; insignificant.