I've never thought about myself as someone people would look up to. Why would they, if I do stupid things like everyone else? I'm not anyone entirely poetic and wise or really pretty and busty, I'm just a dinky, dorky, bubbly teenage girl with black-banded braces and old-man glasses.
So, with these thoughts of what a role model SHOULD be... compared to how I am, you can understand my surprise when a younger friend of mine asked me to have a sleepover with her. She told me that she knew I was a popular person at the school I attend, and if I didn't want to hang out with her she would understand. "Woah," Is the only thought I could have at this point. I totally like this girl, and she really wanted me to accept her invitation to have a sleepover together. It made me feel like a complete jerk when said she thought she wasn't as great as me and that I could blow her off because of it.
I don't ever want to be that person, the person she was explaining, and if she DOES think of me as just, then why in the world is she looking up to me?
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Oh, I can explain this one: You're in 9th grade, socially confident, very pretty, and super popular. She's in 7th grade, socially unsure, and has a small group of friends but is far from being super popular.
ReplyDeleteOf COURSE she's going to wonder if you have time for her or would want to hang out with someone younger and far less of a guy magnet! Duh!
Now, I know that you are really great about not worrying about a person's popularity or coolness status before you decide what you think of them, but that's because I am an adult version of your 7th grade friend and have the maturity to see what she can't.
Go to her sleepover and have fun. And good for you for not being the traditional popular chick who only wants to hang out with other popular people.