Sophie Straight
Feature Editor

One of the reasons people in high school are commonly stressed out is because of so-called ‘drama’ between them and their friends.

I know finals can be very stressful, but that’s only four days per semester. The rest of the year’s stress and spontaneous crying is due to the fact that someone was spreading rumors about someone else. I have had a bit of prior experience with this in middle school, and I have found that it is ridiculous.

This is extremely common in middle school, but by high school, people should be over this and grow up a bit.

My friends and I don’t ever have this issue because we like each other enough that we don’t feel like it is necessary to be mean to each other. If one of us does happen to say something offensive about the other, normally it is on accident, and we are able to talk about it reasonably and resolve the issue.

Other students hang out in big groups of people so that when they frustrate another person, they have several others to fall back on.

Most of the issues between these groups start out small and quickly become inflamed when a so-called ‘drama queen’ makes the story bigger than it actually is.

What I simply don’t understand is why people choose to be this way. Some students choose to be mean because they genuinely don’t like their friends all the time. If that is truly the case, they shouldn’t be friends with each other at all. It saves them from eternal sadness, and it saves the person they’re talking to from extreme annoyance at their situation.

I would like to think I’m not the only one who thinks this is absolutely unnecessary to the learning environment. I understand that school is an opportunity to make friends and be around new people, but the negative interactions are detrimental to this idea of a positive learning environment.

We are in high school, which is basically a transitional school from childhood to adulthood. One would think because of that fact, people would be more adult-like. However, that is not always the case with some high school students.

The solution here for those getting picked on by their friends is to simply not care. You should not care what other people think about you because they are not living your life, you are. If people do not like you for exactly who you are, they do not deserve to be your friend.

For the other side, stop spreading rumors and picking fights with your friends. It doesn’t make you look cool, it makes you look like a baby who is desperate for attention. If you want attention, give attention. Nice doesn’t just go one way. Finally, don’t use the words that you have to be negative to others, especially not your friends.