by Tori Hall

Created on: April 29, 2008

Mean Girls? There's so much you can say about them, and when you're done there will still be even more about them. Every single school, work place or group has at least one mean girl, if not more. No-one really likes the mean girl, but they know that if they get on their bad side that the mean girl can spread rumors about them in a heartbeat or set them up at to get them into trouble.

Every girl has been the mean girl in one or more situations in their lives, and if you say that you never were, then you are lying through your teeth. Sorry, but you are. There have been times that I have been really mean to people but I am never mean unless someone starts something with me. In the same way, others can be mean even when they are kind hearted in nature.
Your best friend could even possibly be one. Have you ever thought about what your friends say when you're gone from school because you're sick or had an appointment so you just don't go that day. But when you get back to school the next day everyone looks at you differently and you wonder why. You ask around but they give you the cold shoulder or are just really mean to you about it. This is where it comes in big time with trusting your friends and knowing who is really there for you and won't tell people things that you have told them in confidence.

The true friends are the ones that back you up when they hear a rumor that a mean girl has started or can keep a secret even when you are fighting and you think that you're never going to be friends again. But if you truly are friends and not just the mean girls that act like you're friends then everything will work out just fine in the end.

No matter what, there is always going to be someone there judging you by the way you look, talk, who you associate yourself with, or just for the heck of it. Let's face it, girls can have the "green eyed monster" hanging over their shoulder. We get JEALOUS over some of the dumbest things. When they make fun of someone because they are considered the "ugly duckling", they are just really jealous because that "ugly duckling" has something that they don't have. By making the "ugly duckling" feel bad about themselves or whatever, they are trying to make themselves feel better for what they are missing. It's called low self-esteem.

So I think that girls just need to get over trying to be better. Like the saying goes life isn't always a popularity contest. Now it's your turn to prove that, that's not what life is all about. Just get over yourself!

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