Cool Kids

"Cool Kids"... who exactly are they? Why do we go through most of life aspiring to be like them? Well, without running the risk of sounding like an American teenage drama, these are the Jocks, the Princesses, the Queen Bees. The ones, who we perceive, are living the good life, driving the best cars, wearing the trendiest of clothes, owners of the latest gadgets, having the pick of the litter. The object of desire, want and envy.

Always seen with their group of minions, they rule the roost. Mostly everyone wants to be them or be seen with them. They are the popular kids to whom looks and status means everything. They are the envy and scorn of most of the crowd. Their popularity so invincible that often they fade people to the background.

In short they are pretty superficial, but we don't care because we want to be with them. We aspire to be part of their click. Beneath all those muscles and pans of make up and clothes, lies a hollow heart. In all their shallowness, they believe that the world revolves around them. They can be cruel, cold and heartless to someone outside their click, the outcasts. Never blinking an eye before spreading a rumour. They have no clue of the people around them, and they don't care about them. And inspite of all this we aspire to be with them, because want to fit in, be seen as the in thing, high on the pecking order. We so blinded by envy that we are willing to overlook the superficalness, their shallowness, to be with them, to be like them. They have no clue about where they are going and use their minions to do their bidding. But still we want to be them.

As years go by and we slowly grow out of this phase, just when we think we've come to our senses, we find ourselves in a life we thought we have put behind, we fall back in the trap of being seen as socially relevant. Again we want to be seen with the popular people, be it socially or career wise. We want to be seen with the popular click, the boss who makes all the decisions, who's responsible for our progression. We want to be invited to the most happening parties, be a part of important meetings and decisions, to be socially relevant and making, or faking, our way to the top. Ignoring the ones who embraced you for who you are.

Thus we go through our lives always envying the ones, who we perceive, are better than us. Always aspiring and trying to be something we may be not. Leading a life in way is built on superficial pleasures. Never truly living the life we were meant to live. Always trying to fit in.

"I wish that I could be like the cool kids,

Cause all the cool kids they seem to fit in."