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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
The second thing is my 11th grade yearbook. I hadn't opened it since my senior year in HS and was astounded to see that (many of) the girls that were considered to be the class beauties really weren't all that outstanding in the looks department while I saw pictures of girls that pretty much kept to themselves who were, in fact, beautiful. My friend who was reading with me suggested it was all a matter of the girls who were considered beautiful believing so much in their looks that they kind of swept up everyone else in the delusion (think "Emperor's New Clothes")
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Oh my GOD yes....I forget who I was talking about this with, but I look at the girls who were supposedly "top of the heap" in my class..one, in particular (the head cheerleader) wasn't ugly, but she was FAR from being beautiful. I think part of it was her dad owned a gym. She got very used to talking to all the guys who came there, and was very confident because of it. And incidentally, she was a crappy cheerleader IMO.
Also, (I think this is particularly true in small towns) if your brother or sister was popular, it often trickled down to you, whether you deserved it or not. The above named girl's best friend looked like a rat. Her sister was gorgeous, however....and it trickled down, and guys thought she was hot.
But getting out of high school, there's a difference between being confident and being OVERconfident. I think if you're confident, you're enjoying being you and don't care if anyone else does, and if you're OVERconfident, you demand that everyone else appreciate you.