In book after book, you see romance and one other thing which is the struggle to be at the top of the food chain or to be popular. In the novel, Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard one of the main characters, Hana Marin, is always worrying about how she looks to be popular. So she always eats then she thows her food up like she has an eating disorder, when she kinda does but doesn't. I can't understand why being popular makes you happy to me it would be quite miserable. Having to dress a certain way, talk a certain way, and maybe even think a certain way just doesn't seem like being an individual it seems like your some clone and everyone wants to be like you.
You see models and actors, who have to have the designer clothes and the perfect makeup but for what a couple of hours of feeling beautiful?? Feeling beautiful makes you feel great and have high self confidence, being beautiful comes with being popular. All around the world teenage girls and guys both have this idea that being the gossip talk of the school also known as being popular is the best thing in the world, when they're missing the big picture. Being popular isn't what makes you happy it seems to make you miserable, In my novel, this group of girl struggle to live normal lives because they try and try to be the best looking chicks around. Hana, Spencer, Aria, and Emily all have normal family issues after their best friend Alison died they've all been lost in time. To me this is pure insanity you don't have to be around the best people according to your peers to be happy being happy is being and individual.
Living is living your life with the people you love and what you love to do. What I can't understand is why some teenage girl would risk her life just to look Flawless. Never will I let myself trade in my friends and family to look flawless to please people who I don't give a care in the world what they think about me. Most popular people stress night and day about what to wear and what other people will think of them when they shouldn't because nobody should care what other people think the only true opinion is yours.
So maybe being popular has its good and bad things but in my perspective everything about being popular seems bad to me. Sara Shepard had the true concept of this topic she became a teenager again and that blew me away at how she takes all this drama in her novels and relates it to real life. The one thing I got from these books is that being popular isn't being happy.
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