Have you ever heard the saying, "You are who you"re friends are. My mother used to tell me this all through high school, because of the people that I hung out with. It took me a few years to think about it and I discovered something. She's right; you are who your friends are. It goes hand in hand with, "Birds of a feather flock together.".
All through out high school I hung out with the Mexican group simply because of the fact that they didn't judge me for what I did, but for who I was. We did a lot of the same things. Some of the things I did were things they introduced me to. They never peer-pressured me and never made fun of me unless they knew I wouldn't take it personal. In a way I have always been like that. I never wanted to pressure anybody into doing anything they didn't want to do, and also I never made fun of somebody without them knowing that I didn't mean it.
When I was in grade school I always set myself away from the "cool kids." To me they were snotty and mean. I could usually see who they were by the way they treated my brother. He was always the fat obnoxious kid. They never understood his condition of being A.D.H.D (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder). In a way, because of the fact that they didn't understand him, they were scared of him, and tore him down by the mean things they said. I always chose to hang out with the new kids, because of they fact that they didn't couldn't hang out with the "cool kids", until they had proven themselves worthy.
As I grew up into middle school, I tended to hang out with the cool kids in the Christian school that I transferred to. They weren't really cool; they were more like me. They were nice kids who made good role models for the younger children. This changed in eighth grade when we started to receive people who were sent to Christian school, for the fact that they were expelled from high school for things that I cant" really speak of.