Mean Girls

 It's October 3rd. For those of you who don't know, this is a quote from the movie "Mean Girls". It's about a girl who moves from Africa back to America. She was homeschooled her entire life. Now, she has to make the transition into a high school, and she has no idea how hard it's going to be. Throughout the movie, all Cady Heron does is try to fit in. The first day of school she has no friends, so she eats lunch in a bathroom stall. She does end up with the popular girls, only to try and sabotage the queen bee Regina George, under instruction of her friend Janis Ian. In her attempts to ruin the image of Regina, she becomes exactly what she was trying to destroy.
It seems like all anyone wants to do these days is be in with "the crowd," to be an exact replica of someone else because what we see in ourselves isn't good enough. People let the opinions of others change who they are completely, and sometimes it's not for the better. What happened to being different? I believe that if you are not satisfied with who you are, you should do something to change it. Mean girls will do anything to make you feel like you're not good enough. But, did you ever think that maybe they are just jealous of the things you have? People like that are missing things like a genuine personality or sense of respect for someone other than themselves.
So just remember, you don't need to change everything about yourself to please others, and being a mean girl is totally not gruel. If you feel the need to change, make sure it's for you and not for anyone else.

              KZ