Tough being unpopular, at 14
Recently we had student council interviews in my school, which I had to miss thanks to the high levels of pollution. I am especially upset since I finally had the answer to the question ‘Why should we select you’. Perhaps you would like to hear the answer. ‘Ma’am, Sir. I believe you should select me because I am not afraid of being unpopular. I say and do what I know for a fact, rather than following a herd doing wrong things. Don’t get me wrong – I am not stubborn or egoistic. I welcome opinions and am happy to be corrected. But mostly, I do whatever I understand to be right. The interesting thing is that doing the ‘right’ thing is always logical – based on common sense. Throwing rubbish out of the school bus instead of waiting for 10 minutes and putting it in a dustbin, makes no sense. Buying plastic bottles of water and drinking ‘nano plastic’ is illogical as it’s dangerous for our health, not just the planet’s. [ I recently learnt this on the WWF website – whi...