It is sometimes easier to go along with what the majority of your peers are doing, but is it always right? This question is one I find myself asking over and over. High school is a place where young girls idolize the senior girls and the way they do their hair, young boys want to be the coolest athlete, and everyone has already set their cliques with who is in and who is out. There is one high school scenario that stands out in my mind, and truly makes me proud to be who I am.
             Jealous adj: feelings of envy or bitterness. This is a word many have encountered whether it was parents or friends relaying the message "Oh they're just jealous." It may be something you have that someone else doesn't, but hurtful words or actions are the results of jealous feelings. Boys have it a lot easier than girls do. There is no worrying about how "Jane" is going to like their hair, and if she is going to make fun of them or not. So, being a girl and coming into a new school must not be the easiest thing to do.
             One day my friends and I were walking down the crowded hallways when a new face popped out. Emerson is a small town with an even smaller student body so the slightest change is extremely noticeable, even as the little seventh graders come in the upperclassmen know them all by the second week of school. This was going on the second month of school and I hadn't ever seen this girl. Her expressions were very timid and she didn't look very comfortable so my friend and I decided we should go and talk to her, but before we got the chance to we were stopped. Another one of our friends had asked us if we thought that this was a good idea. "A good idea?" I thought. What was so wrong about it?
             I decided to totally disregard her comment and go about what I thought was the right thing to do. As a little girl my mother always told me treat others, as you would want to be treated and I have prou
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