Every high school, in every town, has a homecoming queen - pretty or smart, or not.
If you think about how teenage suicide is still on the rise because kids don't feel like they're a part of anything, it's tragic. And it seems like beyond appearing in a Girls Gone Wild video, they haven't been taught or figured out how to "work it".
You've got to work it. You've got to milk it. And these days you better tweet because Twitter is not for the squeamish and is on the move.
If you weren't one of the most popular people in high school, you can be the most popular now. Because you decide.
Personally speaking, back in the day, had I looked like everyone else - instead of running the homecoming Crown and Elections committee - I would have been the homecoming queen. I had a permanent tan, wore an Afro and didn't have to tease my hair to get it. I was the only African-American in the entire school during all of but two years of my formative education.
See, what happens is, in the long run, things always work out. And they'll be better than you'd expected, too. I just wish kids today could get a sense of this. Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem (or two), and nothing to mess around with. Think about how they must feel and what they must be going through. It's really sad.
Looking back, doesn't high school seem sort of like some kind of a bad episode of The Twilight Zone? Look at the pictures; bad hair, bad outfit. Besides, for many people, it was a narrow minded and stupid time. Individuality certainly wasn't celebrated, like today, where it's okay to say, "I'm doing me".
The good thing is, things have worked out for most of us really well. I own a business specializing in luxury services. What did you end up doing? My career choice works out well for me, as most of the people that I do business with are a little strange and quirky, if not downright weird and eccentric, anyway. So not quite "fitting in" in high school is definitely playing a positive role in the fringe benefits of high school.
Luxury services is a world where "ordinary" is out of the question. Anything less than a stunning miracle is unacceptable. And being completely weird, I love that.
The luxury services crowd are the kind of clientele that will suggest that you go to the ends of the earth to make sure that nothing they do, buy, or own is like anyone else.
You gotta respect that. If they can afford to pay for it, why not?
Anyway, who wants to buy average?
So who would've thunk it? Who would have thought that not "fitting in" would work out so well? It just goes to show, when you do what you do well (and you do, right?), and you "sell" the true you (because anything less is unacceptable), you just about hit the ball out of the ballpark every time.
You can think of this as trite and useless. Or you can think of it smart and helpful.
Whatever the case, if we can be perfect enough to remember any of this stuff, then people just might understand who we are and what we're doing - and celebrate (pay) you for your creative individuality, no matter what field you work in.
So the question still stands. Are you a caterer (judge, school teacher, stay-at-home mom, dentist, or whatever)? Or are you a human rights activist?
Maybe the answer is that you're both.
And that reminds me - Pray for Haiti, please.
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