When I was a kid, I wanted to be popular so bad. But I wasn't. It's not that people didn't like me, but I was just always kind of in the background. I remember feeling like I was missing out on the action, and there was always somewhere cooler to be (and someone cooler to be with). Ugh, now I hate that word 'popular'. It has so many connotations, it has turned into a negative term. Instead of it's actual meaning, 'well-liked', the word 'popular' is used to refer to the coolest cliques, kids who are snobby and judgemental. They are hated, but still put up on a pedestal. Fortunately we all mature, and recognize that we don't lift ourselves up by putting other people down. Being well-liked comes from liking ourselves and being comfortable in our own skin. When we feel good about ourselves, we make the people around us feel good and want to be with us.
I'm sure that I didn't make people feel especially good around me when I was younger, and I hope I have grown in that aspect. I would like to take it a step further, as a kind of extension of last week's post. I want to treat everyone like they are a rock star. Well, for me, maybe not a rock star -I want to treat them like my idol, Maya Angelou. For all her gifts and her amazing light, she is after all, a human being. Everyone has their own gifts and amazing light so, the world may not recognize them, but I will.
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