Popular People or Self Conscious Freaks?

People talk a big game, but they are hypocritical, especially schools. They spend countless hours and money on rallies trying to teach students to have confidence, how not to care if you only have a few friends or a lot, and mostly that popularity doesn't matter. Yet every year, schools allow students to vote for a homecoming/prom king and queen. Many people make a big deal out of being crowned king and queen, but the only way possible to be voted king or queen is to be popular. The school also allows, every year in the yearbook, students to vote for "best eyes," "best dressed," or "most likely to succeed," which are also solely based off of popularity as well. If the school really wanted to encourage the lesson that popularity doesn't matter, they would get rid of these popularity contests. Also, don't go thinking that I am only critical of these things because I am jealous of the people voted this, because I was nominated for it. However, I didn't want it because it promotes elitism. It's sick how the people need to win these popularity contests to make them feel good about themselves. Later, in life, no one care that you were voted prom king or homecoming queen. The likely hood that you will become successful because you were most popular in high school or college is non-existent. The majority of people who become successful were not all that popular in school. Popularity truly doesn't matter. So why does society put so much pressure on it? Answer is that they are self conscious, so they need these popularity contests to prove to themselves that they are worth something. Also, people always complain on how difficult it is to be popular, but what they forget to mention is that they wanted that popularity in the first place, but clearly they don't want to pay the price for what it takes to be "popular." Their difficulties include always feeling self conscious about what others think of them, which makes them feel horrible because that is why they wanted to be "popular" in the first place. They wanted to get rid of that self conscious feeling. True popularity isn't something you should need to be working to keep. It should just come and you should not make you feel any different than if you weren't popular, because popularity doesn't matter. It doesn't change anything. You can pretty easily spot out the difference between those who work towards popularity and those it just comes to. The people that work for it are always emotional and cruel, but those who it just comes to doesn't even see themselves as popular, because it doesn't matter to them. So why should it to you? No one else who is worth getting to know won't judge you on being popular, because it doesn't matter to them. Technically speaking, popularity doesn't even exist. It is an image created in the mind. So even as I mentioned before those people who are popular with out trying aren't really popular either, because it doesn't exist. All it really is people liking that person because they are nice. If people gave up the "popular" image, the world would be much better off, because popularity doesn't exist, but has to much society pressure on it. If the image was gone, no one would base their self worth on that anymore, and people would be generally happier.