Random idea @ 2:15 AM. I know most've ya'll have thought of this idea at least ONCE in your life. Are you considered "popular" by other people? Do you "think" that you are? Fire away as to what makes you so "popular" you popular guy you. Oh yeah, by the way I think I'm popular. I think what makes people popular is their ability to network, get along with people, and be in somewhat of a respectable position. For example, I haven't seen many popular hobo's....well...there is Joe out on Western and 22nd..... .....And oh yeah, being good lookin doesn't hurt your popular ratin neither....
Man it sucks being bored at 2, now 3 in the morning when you're 17 and should be writing college essays. But thank god for PS2 (just took a break from the fun & frustration of ESPN 2k4) and p*rn (well not lately)!!!!!!! If not for them, damn I don't know what I'd be doing right now (dare I say sleeping! ). And yeah, I'm definitely popular and it's all thanks to my winning personality. Ah what am I saying, it's because I'm Jewish!
The need for popularity expired for me about 18 years ago. It is the height of teenage stupidity that something that meaningless is actually significant.
I've learned since elementary school that when grown ups say they are too mature to do childish things, they are lying.
Now doing is another story. There's lots of stuff I do that is childish, so much so that I've had to rethink what it means to be an adult... it sure doesn't jive with what I thought when I was a kid. But I think a lot of folks mature to the point where they are not overly concerned about what others think about them and get to the point where are not defined by others. (By the way, no hypocrisy here... I've never claimed to be "mature.")
Well the correct word may not be "popular" but after college their is somethin that determines social class and superiority. You may not wanna confront it, but you know that thought pops in your mind where you think of someone who has a better house, car, wife, etc.
Maybe the question is better asked, "As a mature adult, are you insecure, or self confident?" Isn't that what popularity really is?
I know bunches of acquaintances, most of them classmates, and I'm lucky if all of those people add up to .5% of the student population (UT's a freakin hugeass school), but don't have too many real true friends. If that counts as popular, I voted wrong.
In junior high and high school, all I cared about was popularity. Now, though, it's no big deal. I still tend to put too much stock in other people's opinions, but wanting to be popular isn't an issue anymore.
