Everyone has a label in High School, it is also one of those places where people separate themselves from who they are because of their label. The losers, nerds, weirdos, nobodies, basic, the wannabes, and the jocks/popular. They all have their own tables at lunch, their own crowd in the hall, even their own style. It wouldn’t be hard to point someone out in the hall and know where they would fall.

It had started to get me thinking where I would be able to fall under and didn’t know if it was obvious or not to others. I had a general idea what my label was but wasn’t 100% sure if I would fall under it. When I had started to think about it, I had started to think about what people would say about me in conversations. After a few different conversations, I had known which one I was in and it was the one I thought I had been in.

As being apart of being the whole jock category, some people don’t want to get outside of the group and talk to others. I had realized I had a bad habit of sitting with the same people at lunch or the same people in the hallways. I thought I had talked to so many other people who I wasn’t like, but I was wrong. Knowing me, I didn’t want to be like everybody else. Yeah I loved being in the jock category but I thought we should spread and talk to people who weren’t like us and get involved with them. Being more involved with other students would benefit everyone in a way. If the jocks/ populars talked to the people like the nobodies, they would feel a little bit better about themselves and they would help out the jock/ populars by going to some of the school's games or doing RDM, etc. Not only would it benefit for somethings but in a way you had gotten  yourself a friend who you had thought you would never be friends with.

All because of this, last week at lunch I had tried to sit with everyone from all different groups or even tried talking to a new group in the hallway. Everyday I had sat with a new group. It was something different, you learn some people's characteristics, what their likes are and what their dislikes are. At first, I was pretty nervous sitting with someone new everyday. Like would I be able to join in on conversations? Majority of the time it was easy to have a conversation with them. Would I do something like this again? Probably. It was more of a learning experience to me than anything else.

When you are put into a label, some people fear that they can’t go sit with someone else or they wouldn’t want to sit with someone else because of who they resemble. Now I’m here trying to convince people that they should go sit with people who they don’t know, because who knows, you may learn something. Or realize what you had thought was all bad in your life wasn’t as bad to what some of these people are going threw. Some people know that their are in lesser labels than others and it makes a difference to them if someone else who had no connections with them and come up to them and just start talking.

When I was sitting with new people everyday, it amazed me how many people actually knew me but I had no idea who they were. I had also learned about so much about people and their personalities, it was kind of crazy.

The point I guess that I’m trying to get along is that maybe no matter what group that you were put in, you should put yourself out there and try to get to know other people. Don’t let someone else from the group you were put in, judge you for trying to interact with people from other labels. I may be a jock but it doesn’t mean I didn’t care interacting with new people and getting to know some new things. Another thing that I had learn was, to help the janitors after lunch and picked up other students trays that they hadn’t thrown away. If you go and help them throw out the trays, you helped make their days. I had talked to some of the janitors through out the week and they were so happy that a random student was staying after lunch and spending their passing period throwing out trash rather than talking to their friends. They do more than what a lot of people think they do. The people who leave their trays on the table, think they are cool for doing it but really it's not cool to do that. Doesn’t matter who you are as a person but if you interact with the janitors and help them out with the littlest things like help clean up the cafeteria after lunch, they would be thrilled.

According to Merriam Webster, a jock is someone who plays or is highly involved in sports and in high school. Which means jocks spend more time at practices, games, work, school, and their home life and still can manage to sit with someone else or help out the janitors after lunch. So if someone who didn’t do as much as them and tries to claim that they can’t spend a few minutes and do these simple task, they are out flat lying to you. They just honestly don’t want to because they want to do better things than help them out. We all have better things that we want to do, so it wouldn’t take much effort if more students help them out by throwing out other student’s trays, no matter where they come from.

The littlest things can bring people together and make things better for others. Something so little can make someone's day or by helping them. Honestly, I don’t think how much people can make a difference and also make it a learning experience. It wouldn’t be just a learning experience for now but it would also be a learning experience for the future. In the end, the label that people thinks that matters so much in high school, won’t matter later on. So if people are so worried about their labels, they shouldn’t. This past week even a jock could change so much from simply helping out.