Popularity =?

Being popular is one of the common things we desire, having the highest status, having the most friends, getting invited to cool parties, having the front row seat in high school. The popular kids seem so happy and seem like they're enjoying life everyday, but on the inside, are they really? In my opinion being popular is a tough life, you have to live up to your status, cool, slutty and full of swag. You change yourself into this person people look upon, so different than the real you, and you put this appearance up everyday at school and you're so use to it you turn into this totally opposite person. And what if you're popularity decreases, you drink alcohol, smoke, swear a lot, you think that makes you look cool and it will increase your status but it'll only make you look like a pooh. People want to be popular so bad, but I have to admit, I am fully contented of being how I am right here, the normal, ordinary students. We can just live our school life freely without having to live up to an image, and if we screw things up, who cares? But if the popular kids screw things up, everybody knows, and everybody would be judging them. So being just the ordinary means we don't have to live up to the high expectations of everybody and just be ourselves, live our teen years, make mistakes without being judged. Popularity has it's perks but don't get lured in the dark side just because they have cookies.