Peole Are Just People

Shallowness; it's a two way street.

Just Beautiful <3

So I am nineteen and dorm at college. It is a small campus, very intimate classes and in a way it seems like high school all over again. Since our school does not accommodate tens of thousandths of other students it is easy to hear and start gossip about anyone and everyone. Gossip is a very common thing but here the details are never scarce and you end up knowing the first and last name of that person, what unit they live in and what their blood type is... jk :P

For instance no one likes the soccer team. The mens/womans soccer team sticks together like a wolf pack. hardly do they visit the outside world and when they do it is not for long or not very welcome. Of course this is all from my perspective. Soccer has become their identifier and they are fine with that. I felt their cocky aura as soon as I started attending here. They projected a repulsive sense of entitlement and I could not understand why they felt obligated to do so. However most of the feelings and thoughts I associated with them were simply assumed or anticipated ones. I tend to shun before anyone even has the chance to shun me. I decided early on that I would want nothing to do with them because of their superficial and shallow reputations. For so long I believed I was the better person. I believed that because I did not find them appealing in the least and because I was not tempted to somehow dive into the ego that would envelop me the moment we became friends that I was maturing. I actually decided that I was in a way engaging in some warped type of reverse "shallowness". Not even considering giving them the opportunity to present themselves individually and categorizing them as I would objects rather than people made me shallow. I exuded the same superiority I labeled them with... contradiction? I think so.

And how did i come to that conclusion up there you ask?
Well, just recently I started actually socializing with a couple of them and even found one in the roster of my more challenging classes. And wouldn't you have guessed it... they are quite the normal people. For so long I had a saying " People Are Just People", whenever I am intimidated by someone or when I can't find the courage to introduce myself to anyone, I tell myself just that; People are just people. Meaning, no one is too special for someone else. No one is above anyone else. This is the real world we are living in, there are not certain prerequisites one meets before relationships/friendships can be established. We all have emotions, doubts, aspirations, fears... basically we all feel. Although there may be that one case where someone really is not kind at all, we must still give humanity the benefit of the doubt.

What a tangled web we weave when it comes to refraining from shallowness :)
-Camii