Society is dealing a lot on television and the internet with teen cliques and bullying. Oh, how they should! Everyone knows there are multiple gangs of people in all high schools. The members of some of them take pride in tormenting people who are different from themselves. They stand around whispering, tittering and sniggering until graduation. Just as for the high school jock who winds up selling used cars and going nowhere, many of these people, male and female, remain fixated at high school maturity level.
I'm not talking about somewhat slow learners whose tested maturity age is lower than their chronological age. In many ways they are smarter than the sniggering adults. I'm discussing people who, even though they may have gotten two-year degrees somewhere, remain stuck in clique mode the rest of their lives. They see someone with five kids walking down the street, they move mouth to ear and whisper, whisper, titter, titter until the other moves away.
Included are clusters of two to four guys, watching someone doing yard work, their heads in a clutch, their laughter peeling as they whisper to each other.
How do we know they are being catty? Of course, we don't. But what would be the point of whispering if it were complimentary?
In many ways I'm sorry for these individuals who have nothing better to do with their time than gather in clutches and bad mouth their coworkers or acquaintances. How sad for them that they have no goals for learning and achieving at their best level. If they did have, they wouldn't have time to waste sniggering at and putting down their casual acquaintances. They would be too busy improving themselves.
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