The Inner Ring

Inner rings can either be a great or a dangerous thing. All of us belong to an inner ring at some point in time. I'm sure we have all belonged to several inner rings. At least I know that I have. We all belong to an inner ring with our families. My family is very small so that inner ring isn't that big. All throughout school I have been in the inner ring. I come from a very small public school from which I graduated with 16 other classmates. Due to the fact that our school was so small you had a pretty big group of friends within your class. This also stretched to other classes, maybe from some of the kids you played sports with. Soon you have a giant inner ring from all of the classes in the High School. If you were on the inside it was a great thing. You always had some friends and never had too much trouble. If you were on the outside it wasn't always the greatest. I saw some of the kids on the outside suffer. People would make fun of them, or pick on them. I always felt really bad when this happened. It just goes to show that inner rings are definitely not always a good thing.

Then again inner rings can be a great thing. Your family for example can be a great inner ring. Or maybe even a church inner ring. You can find support and encouragement from them. You can be able to go to them when you need help. To know that someone will always be there to support you is a great thing and inner rings like this help.

Exclusion can be a good thing, but it is mostly bad. Our floor has an inner ring and there are about 10 guys in it. There are a few which think they are in it, but which are really not. This type of exclusion is bad. These people are trying to reach out and make friends, but don't realize what is really happening. Its sad really and we need to learn to stop excluding like this.