Fawn & Lamb

Definition of a popularity contest : a contest or situation in which the person who wins or is most successful is the one who is most popular rather than the one who is most skillful, qualified, etc. A popularity contest is a real or hypothetical contest in which the sole criterion for winning is how many votes one gets, such that the winner is the most liked contestant. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Life is one huge popularity contest. I have never won. I'm finally deciding to look up from the bottom of my losses and admit it fully and out loud. I am not popular. I never will be. I am definitely not the most liked. When it comes to people my age, it only matters who has the most followers on social media, the most "likes," the biggest clique. The most friends. I have never had any of those things. I am writing this out of discouragement due to a recent loss of a popularity contest, one I hoped...

Source: an_apollo_peach Judas Hangs Himself Then when  Judas, his betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned,  he changed his mind and brought back  the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders,   saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us?  See to it yourself.”   And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple,  he departed, and he went and hanged himself.   But the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into  the treasury, since it is blood money.”   So they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field as a burial place for strangers.   Therefore  that field has been called the Field of Blood  to this day.   Then was fulfilled what had been spoken by the prophet Jeremiah, saying,  “And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him on whom a price had been set by some of the so...