I think we all have experience with the fact that girls can be incredibly mean. Yes, boys can too, but I specifically want to address mean girls. In the movies, they seem to dramatize this role of the “mean girls” or the “popular girls”, but some of this stuff actually happens in real life.

Everybody has moments where they might make a snarky comment about another to a friend. But to go out of your way to make someone feel bad about themselves? I will never understand why anybody does this. For instance, there are some girls who were so mean to someone, that they literally drove her to quit something she loved just because they made her that miserable.

What it is that makes these people believe that they are above others. Does it have to do with money, the way they dress, the way they look?

The possibilities could go on forever but there is no real answer. The truth is, most of the time people who put others down do it to feel better about themselves. Even if you do have more money or better grades or more stylish clothes or whatever the case may be, that doesn’t mean you have to put others down that fit “below” that standard.

Just being nice to people can actually make your own life better. The look on a stranger’s face when you tell them they look pretty that day is irreplaceable. If you’re having a bad day, trying to improve other’s may end in improving your own while putting others down surely will not help.