Remember I said I was going to take a random topic and run with it? well here you go.
I had friends in elementary school. I was never super super super popular but I got invited to all of the important parties and the like.
The tail end of 6th grade, I found out about Duran Duran. I immediately became a fan. Well, I started Jr. high school and it was the great equaliser. I was hated at my junior high school.And it had everything to do with me liking Duran Duran. I've told this story before but I was pretty much the only person who liked Duran Duran.I wouldn't say that I was bullied for liking Duran Duran but it wasn't easy. Occasionally I would run into people who liked Duran Duran and I was always amazed. There was a girl that liked Duran Duran-we'll call her N. who was a Duran Duran fan. We never really got to know each other all that much, because we only ever spoke a few words to each other-we'd be interrupted by one of her friends, who were most definitely NOT Duran Duran fans, and they told me so.
Because of this, I tried to reconnect with a friend I had when I was a kid-we went though kindergarden and first grade together, but it turned out that we didn't really have all that much in common.
High school was interesting. I wasn't a Duran Duran fan by then, but again, not so many friends. Which I was actually OK with. And get this: I was hated on by the nerdiest person in the school not once, but TWICE. Thank the good lord I didn't really care all that much in both cases, though in the first instance I later found out that the first person(who was female) was spreading rumours about me. Huh. The other person was a teacher's pet. I think he felt threatened by me for some reason. I dropped that class, but later found out that the teacher's pet was conspiring to get me bounced from the class.I didn't let him get the satisfaction-basically, "You can't fire me, I quit".
TLDR*:Being popular can, in some instances, be overrated.
*Too long, didn't read
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