Gossip

Hello everyone!! So as I have stated before, I'm not really one to complain a whole bunch. Or for that matter, gossip at all. But this is a very particular case. So lemme begin by briefly telling you guys that if I offend any of you, please tell me. And I'm terribly sorry. I'm just entitled to my own opinions. Well the story starts here. This morning I was on my way to school. Very excited and not tired, on rare occasion am I not tired. But today, I wasn't tired, which for me symbolizes a good day. I'm not too satisfied with my schedule, but other than that I don't really have a problem with school other than learning. But that's a whole 'nother issue. Anyways, so right in front of my locker were standing a small cluster of about 3 or 4 girls chatting the world away. At first I didn't mind, but after about 5 minutes the warning bell rang. I DID NOT want to be late for science, knowing that my science teacher was very pushy about tardies. So I asked them VERY calmly to scoot a tad bit over. Which they didn't listen to; maybe they couldn't hear me or they were just ignoring me. So I shoved my face into the apparent leader of the group's face and told her to tell her and her little group of friends to zip up and move because they were blocking my locker. Well, I had to force them so eventually they moved, probably out of fear of me. But that's not the real issue, as I was waiting for them to move I had overheard their conversation. And it wasn't the nicest conversation in the world. High school is a curious thing, people making fun of their best friends, gossiping and starting rumors that aren't true. One girl was talking about a girl who apparently wears fake brands. Apparently she had a fake burberry bag, but if you look at me, I'm just standing there wearing a backpack from jansport. I mean c'mon, its school, why would you bring a purse to school? How would you fit your stuff into there? And I knew for a fact that the girl that that girl was gossiping about was her "friend". I absolutely hate it when people do that. It annoys me so much. I mean, girls are girls, I'm a girl too. And I guess I'm a hypocrite because I'm gossiping right now, but my hope is NOT that we stop gossiping, but we stop gossiping about our friends. Because some people really get hurt by that. So lets not be bullies, and what is popularity anyways? For those of us who think its just a word. KUDOS. It is! 30 years from now it will NOT matter what type of shoes you had in 10th grade or what clothes you wore, or how many friends or relationships you went though. What really matters is your small, real, close group of friends that you can really trust. So lets just all be friends girls.
As always,
Signing off, Angela.