People do whatever they can nowdays to be part of the crowd, even talk trash about the nicest people. Everyday of our lives we are surrounded by people gossiping, and it is annoying. They can't seem to say one nice thing about someone; everything is negative. Why are people like that? Why are we so critical of one another? It is the biggest pain to walk down the halls at school and hear people saying, well so and so did this. It makes me want to smack them, especially when I know who they're talking about and know that it's not true. I think one of the reasons is because people want to be "cool," and fit in and in order to do that they talk trash about someone that they know is not in on things. Doing things like that isn't nice in any way, shape, or form and all you are doing is hurting someone, but the thing is things like that can turn around all the time and next that someone could be you. If being popular and fitting in wasn't a big issue today then maybe the false rumors wouldn't either.

Why do so many people save their shopping to the last minute?

Every year on the night of Christmas Eve, it is impossible to drive by a store with an empty parking lot, (unless of course the store is closed, but that's beside the point.) It becomes a hassle to go anywhere because the roads are swamped. I did that one year and once was enough for me, so why do people continue to do it? The only thing I can come up with is they want to do it one day but they run out of time so they put it off for another day; but those days continue to build up, and pretty soon it's Christmas Eve, so they go. Think of how much nicer it would be on Christmas Eve if people wouldn't procrastinate. Unfortunately, people will continue to do last minute shopping and get in a huge hassle, but if they could just get it all done early they could avoid the hassle and be happy.

Why is it so hard to say no to someone?

Every day we constantly have people asking us to do things for them that the majority of the time we wish they would just do themselves. However, we always seem to consent to do the task anyway even though we wish that we could be doing something that we enjoy. The thing is, it's not just one assignment at a time; it's a variety of different people asking you to do different things. At some points it is so frusterating and you just want to say no to the next person who talks to you, but when you are asked to do something you accept the offer so happily. It is confusing and sometimes nothing but a huge joke in our lives. If we could acctually learn to say no once in a while, maybe just maybe, we can have the time to do something that we enjoy and not what someone else wants us to do.

Why do people make winning the only part of their lives?

Every time I get together with my cousins we always play some kind of a game. Whether it's inside playing Monopoly, or going outside and playing some sport. It's a perfectly harmless game until somebody decides that things aren't going their way and they quit. That's usually how it goes with one of my cousins, and frankly I think it is the most annoying thing ever. Every little time the rules are changed slightly he pouts and leaves the game because he knows he can't win at that point. So if people can be taught that winning isn't everything and that people are allowed to have fun, then life will be a whole lot more fun.

Everyday I see people smoking or doing some other drug and I wonder, what causes them to do it in the first place. Why do people continue to do things that they know are bad for them? From the time we are young our parents and teachers teach us the consequences of doing drugs. They can say that they didn't know it would cause such a huge problem, but there's no way they can deny knowing that there would be risks.

Almost everything I walk outside, I inhale smoke because my neighbors smoke. When I inhale the smoke, I can't help but wonder what happened to them in the past to make them start drugs. To me it almost seems like they don't even care, which is sad. There's nothing you can do to change their past choices, but you can help make a difference for people in the future. If people know more fully the conseqences of their actions, then just maybe we will see less and less people doing drugs.