Mean Girls

I so relate to this movie. I think for a portion of my later elementary years and then on into my junior high years I was greatly influenced by mean girls.

Who are these mean girls? They are the pretty ones first and foremost. Being attractive gets them things, allows certain privileges and provides them the feeling that they are superior. Now this is just on superficial level but to them- it seems real and because the world is a superficial place- to some degree it is. But like many "blessings" being on top comes at a price.
I, myself, was never a full-fledged mean girl. Mean Girls had money to blow- I didn't/I don’t. Not to mention most mean girls had misguided people in their lives that wanted to be considered admirable at any cost, if the only admirable quality was knowing a mean girl.

It took awhile to distance myself from some of the mean-spirited people in my life (mean girls become mean-spirited people as they get older). Changes in my circumstances wrapped up most of my superficial friendships. Wish I could say I finally matured and totally moved on on my own but nope, they moved on for the most part.

Don’t get me wrong, mean girls have fun. They thrive on each other’s importance and it usually results in lots of attention being thrown their way. All mean girls love attention and attention is fun. But the mean girl thing doesn’t work if you have values or morals- being a mean girl when you know better only makes you miserable. I’m less miserable on a day-to-day basis but I guess you could say I’m not comfortable in my own skin yet. Maybe I never was but as you get older, it is harder to ignore.

Having said all of this, my saving grace has been my family. They LOVE me, not all that I am or do, but they love me just cause. Thanks fam!

Janis: There are two kinds of evil people in this world. Those who do evil things and those who see evil things and don't try to stop it.

Do you have mean people in your life? Are you a mean person?