One day, we all showed up to middle school and some kids were popular, while others simply weren’t. As someone who was never lucky enough to sit at the cool kids’ lunch table, I always wondered just what it took to be popular. It was an ephemeral and intangible quality, but it was impossible not to notice that the popular kids all seemed to have the right clothes, the right hairstyles, and they certainly didn’t do dumb things like get good grades or play clarinet in the band (like yours truly). Popular kids may have been blessed with the perfect crimped bangs and the trendy Guess jeans, but it turns out that they may have lucked out in the genetic lottery, too.
via Is Popularity Genetic? | Healthy and Green Living.
I was never popular. Nurture vs. nature? Who knows. I didn’t care about the latest fashion or the newest cool thing. OTOH, I had one outgoing parent and one very introverted parent. I like to think I take after both, but the mix I got didn’t lend itself to the popular crowd traits either.All in all, it’s an interesting read.
