The exception

Fake people are everywhere. I used to wonder what being fake meant. Did that mean that you were made synthetic or something? As I grew older and met new people, though, it was an inevitable fact that I was faced with people who aren't genuine. People who will plaster a smile on their face when they're around you but once you leave their mouth is full of all the flaws they notice. It's an unfortunate part of life. You can't have everyone like you. If you revolve your life around pleasing everybody, in the end you won't be pleasing anybody, especially yourself. It's normal to want to fit in. I spent my entire middle school year in that stage. Everybody wants to be popular and cool once in their lifetime. Eventually, though, you realize there's more to life than being able to boast that you're the name in everyone's mouth, or how many facebook friends you have. You need to accept you for you, and that's what high school is all about. It's about discovering who you are and being proud of it. I've been in the place where you have this false image of yourself that in the back of your mind you know you'll never live up to, but for some reason you still strive to be it. It's hard to get out of there, trust me. When you do, though, you'll realize how fake and ubiquitous the majority of people are. Everybody follows the trend like a herd of sheep just so they can have something in common with everybody else. Like my dad says, "you have to be the exception". Find yourself and learn to love you. Eventually you'll stop caring about what other people have to say. You'll know when your being consumed by peer pressure and when your not being yourself, and find the people you can really be friends with, the ones that don't make you think twice about what you say in fear of harsh judgment. Like Audio slave sings," To be yourself is all that you can be".