Appearances. Appearances seem to be everything. It determines your status in this world. Either that or your wealth. But we're gonna take it a little slower and narrow it down some.

High school. Appearances couldn't be more important in high school. Appearances establish which social group (or as everyone calls it, clique) you belong to. Not only do you have to have the right appearance, but so do your parents. Your parents are important to the other students. They'll know if they should beat you up with words and fists, avoid you, uncomfortably converse, talk casually, or invite you to sit with them at lunch. Solely based on appearance. It's very much unfair, right? But people still stand by appearances today.

Those people, the ones who get judged. They feel it. They feel that ridicule, that mocking, that pain. It socks them hard in the stomach, or hangs over their head.

The ones who stand by appearances. They could never quite understand that those nerds, nobodies, and lowlifes had feelings.

It was also extremely difficult for them to comprehend that one of their group finally did begin to understand.