A new journey commences, your first day of high school. You walk in with the mindset that high school is going to be filled with new opportunities, new friends, and a chance to start over. Now don't get me wrong, high school is filled with opportunities but no one feels the need to tell you about the perquisites for inclusion into cliques. In today's generation high schools are more divided into these cliques; the jocks, the popular girls, the nerds, the video gamers, and etc. The list goes on and on. As years have gone by the more groups are created. High school is now game changing. You listen to your parents high school stories thinking maybe high school will be the same for you but high school is far from what it was back then. Cliques existed but it wasn't as demanding to fit in. If you weren't part of a clique that was okay but now it's like you have too or else you'll be stared at or be made to feel alone. Not many individuals try to make others that aren't apart of cliques feel like they are. It's not inclusive, it's exclusive.

It's been said that your last four years of school would be the best. Has anyone taken the time to tell you that those cliques you are apart of now, later, or back then truly don't matter? After your last four years of high school, you move on to a whole different chapter in your life. All those people that were in your cliques or in class with, probably won't speak to you. They will all go off to college, leave for bootcamp, or focus on the journey that they have decided to take after high school. You're interest change from your first day of high school to your last day. You grow as an individual, learn about opportunities, and find different aspects that you may have not had interest in but now that you've learned more about it, it sparked your interest.

So what's so great about cliques? If you aren't apart of a clique don't feel like you don't belong. That is far from the truth. Everyone has their own interest and social circle. Some of us don't even have a social circle and that's okay. Sometimes it takes us until college to find out what social circle we belong in. You don't have to be accepted in high school, you don't even have to be accepted in college but the day will come because I guarantee there is someone out there just like you that has the same passion, or the same interest. So become open-minded and know that if you aren't feeling accepted in these cliques right now that it's not personal. There is so many opportunities outside of high school to find your place in the world.