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 – which I follow. It’s cool place – follow it]. Processed food costs more than fresh fruits and vegetables and takes a toll on your figure and looks. So even if you don’t care about the environment, you surely want good figures and skin. Why travel alone in your big cars, when you can carpool with your friends – and I am not even talking about public transport – which my parents make me take many times and I have so much fun, going by metro. It’s like a mini train ride and who doesn’t like trains.

However thinking like this may not come to you on your own, like it didn’t to me, till another particularly ‘unpopular’ person explained it to me [type ‘unpopular’ on the search bar of this blog – you can read her blogs on this].

So I would be a good leader for the school as when I find someone doing something ‘illogical’, I will point it out, explain the consequences. This may cost me a few ‘friends’ but the ones I will gain, will share the values that make people do the ‘right’ thing. And if we can get just a few more students to think logically, none of us will ever have to miss school because of pollution, again’.