BE THE COOL KID IN SCHOOL

It’s easy to envy the quarterback and head cheerleader.  It’s easy to be jealous of their lives and how much nicer they have things.  It’s easy to want to be anyone else, but yourself.

What’s it like being the most popular kid in school?
What’s it like being the most overlooked kid in school?
Here are a couple of examples.

Emily Miles was voted MVP of the tennis team, prom queen and most likely to win an Oscar.  She smiles all the time and all the guys turn into puddles of drool when she walks by.

Kevin Daniels has never been shoved in a locker, given a swirly or even publicly humiliated at all.  His GPA is a 2.8 and he’s the second string cornerback on the football team.  He works across the street after school at the 7-11.  When the other students come in for a hotdog and soda, they don’t even know he’s in the same class.  Kevin goes home and helps his little brother do homework before their parents get home and they all sit down for homemade chili and cornbread.

Emily walks into an empty house after practice.  Sometimes she’ll check to see if anyone is on AIM, but usually she’ll read “Buddies Offline: 63/68.”  She doesn’t even know the 5 Buddies who are online. Long ago she gave up on doing homework.  One, three guys from different classes are willing to “help” her with the answers; two, she’s dyslexic, though no one at school knows and on the inside she’s freaking out about the SAT’s.  She drinks some liquor from her parents bar and passes out.

Who would you rather be?  Maybe it’d be better to be whoever you have control over.