By Angela Artemis
Avoid popularity if you would have peace. –Abraham Lincoln

Did you long to be popular in high school?

Wish you weren’t on the outside looking in all the time?

Try to fit in by dressing like the “cool” kids?

Does this ring a (class) bell?

You never once thought, “What is my gut telling me to do,” when you were making a decision as a teenager, right? All that mattered was fitting in so that you would feel better about yourself.

No doubt, many of us went through school not being one of the in-crowd and we survived just fine. We can look back now and dismiss it for what it was, “a bunch of insecure teenagers needing to feel validated by following the crowd.”

Some people never... More...