Jelly Bean's Guide to being a Cool Kid
Have you ever heard one of your friends saying that listening to your parents was a babyish, uncool kid kind of thing? Well you know what? He's wrong! Listening to our parents might make you seem a little babyish now but you know.. when you grow up you'll understand that your parents are the only people who stuck with you your whole life and that for that - it's worth making your bed or washing the dishes. Friends come and go as they please but never will your parents leave you alone. Same thing with your siblings. (brothers and sisters) In some cases, it's considered cool to talk back to your mother. Trust me I've been there, done that. I know lots of people who scream and yell at their parents when their friends are around but they cry before them when their friends leave the house. Why is that? Why do people absolutely have to look good in font of their friends? If their friends were real ones, then people would be able to be themselves around them. That's when true friendship comes in. Have a true friend is not something easy to do. Before you have a true friend, you must Be a true friend. And it's just like the famous quote, "Thou shall not be loved until thou shall love others." "Love other and they shall love you." (Just a simpler way to put it)
Being a loveable person is crucial before you are loved. To be "cool" people gotta love ya! Well there are differnt ways to be loved.
1 - Appreciation/admiration
2 - Taking advantage
3 - Being a follower
1 - Appreciation and admiration
To appreciate someone is to be thankful for all that they have done, whether it be big or small. This type of love is the best love possible. If you love someone and you are thankful for what they give you, they will love you back and also be thankful, unless they are cold hearted. Admiration means looking up to. Looking up to someone doesn't mean them being taller than you! It means honouring what they do and trying to do the same thing out of will.
2 - Taking advantage
Some people take advantage of others for reasons I cannot explain. Although I will give you some examples of why somebody would choose to "use" / take advantage of someone. For their money, political power, popularity, shelter, sex, or lack of friends. If somebody's budget it tight and hey really need money, but on the other hand their "friend" is very wealthy, by pretending to be their friend, they might get a couple of dollars in extra. Taking advantage of someone and pretending that they love them is a terrible thing to do. For kids, it's the same thing. Maybe not for money, political power, shelter or sex but for lack of friends and popularity it is seen a lot through elementary and middle schools.
3 - Being a follower
A follower is someone who follows somebody else and does exactly what they do for all of the wrong reasons. Following in someone's footstpes, lets say, your dad is a mecanic and you want to be a mecanic also, is NOT an example of following. Following is more something along these lines.. a girl in school is very popular and she has many friends. She hangs around with the guys and frankly, she's pretty and perfect so they guys like her a lot. The rest of her friends are just average girls and they choose to follow her so that they will look popular also. Followin and Taking advantage is almost the same thing, just that someone who is taking advantage of someone will soend the least time with the person and simply go ahead and use whatever they got out of the person they were manipulating. The follower will stick with whoever they are manipulating just to look better.
I hope you choose the first one!
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