inner rings

I really liked this article by CS Lewis because it helped me realize how common these inner rings are. Everyone wants to get in them. I thought it was interesting to find that CS Lewis sated that we do nothing good to get into these rings. I once was friends with these two pretty cool guys, but they were outcasts just like me. I wanted to get into the inner ring with some of the cooler guys. Once I started talking to some of the guys that were in the inner ring, they began to make fun of my other friends. I began to join in for acceptance, and eventually treated them with complete contempt. I had made some new friends and I was in the inner ring, but I had become a completely different person. I did terrible things to them and hated them thoroughly. It was horrible. When I look back at that I realize much that statement is true. CS Lewis states that we finally get in but we have in turn become a monster. We have gone against all that we stood for in order to gain acceptance.