Why Every Girl Should Have a Girlfriend

Every girl should have a girlfriend. At least one. Because while boys are great fun to be with, they don't quite compare to a girlfriend. It's only with your girlfriends that you can sit looking like a homeless person and still behave like you're Miss Universe. A girlfriend will always tell you how nice you look when you're at a party because she knows the effort that has gone into your outfit and well, everyone likes a compliment, don't they? Also, who better to sit and gossip with? Having a girlfriend is almost as necessary as breathing. With your girlfriends, you can sing off-key, dance like absolute fools, exchange beauty tips and drool on celebrities and the cute boys in your class. Girlfriends are also there during all the issues. The heartbreak, the fights, the loss of a sense of purpose. They understand. They empathize. They also hold a way bigger grudge than you possibly could for the ones who hurt you. What makes a girlfriend special is the fact that she doesn't have to be like you, doesn't even have to have the same interests as you and yet, she manages to understand you on a level that no one else possibly can. Sure, there is the passive aggressive fighting which can implode once in a while, but true girlfriends will always be there for each other in anyway possible-to comfort, to bitch, to gossip, to lift each other's spirits, to be brutally honest even when it hurts, to stick up for each other and also to stop each other from becoming high maintenance divas. Girlfriends are your friends till the very end. And also, us girls have got to stick together!

The Sanity In Madness

We were writing notes on Oscar Wilde's style of writing today and my teacher made a reference to Alice in Wonderland, where the Cheshire Cat says to Alice, "We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad"
What Lewis Carroll intends to say is that we're all eccentric and crazy, its just that some of us have the gift of recognising it better than others.
So, the question lies therein. Are the ones we consider 'mad' actually the brilliant ones? Have they discovered some strange truth that the world isn't privy to yet? Oscar Wilde was definitely eccentric, flamboyant, sarcastic, clever, witty; he could very easily have been one of Carroll's characters. He had the exquisite talent of camouflaging the fact that he looked at the Victorian society with contempt, but his writings made his opinion about them obvious. However, it was written so cleverly that even the smartest and touchiest of us would find ourselves laughing. He wasn't preaching through his plays; he was entertaining. And for me, that's the best way to learn one's shortcomings and faults. Nobody wants to be told that they're artificial and hypocritical. Yet, that is exactly what Wilde did and he was celebrated for it. He was celebrated for his 'madness'. He wasn't didactic. He was the entertaining playwright that everybody wanted to be friends with. Popular, handsome, insanely clever, the world was his oyster. Its tragic that he met such a terrible end. It was his very wit, his arrogance, his flamboyance that cost him dearly.
On that happy note, I think its okay to be mad. Its not just okay, its the way to be. For me, anyway. It's the way to be happy. It's honest, it's real and it's easy. You don't have to pretend. And if anyone tells you that you're mad, trust me, only the best of us are. And yes, I took that from Alice in Wonderland.