I don't like her, there's just something about her that I don't like. She thinks she's all that and she's not. Doesn't this sound familiar?

It's such a pity that girls fight over the most useless things. I have learnt that girls are so threatened by other girls. We're always rating each other on who's the prettiest, most intelligent and popular with the boys and the girl with all these qualities is seen as not giving other girls a chance to shine.

I attend an all-girls high school and there's so much tension between some of the girls. In my experience, girls are always competing with each other. Competition can be healthy but there's times when it's turned into a dangerous competition. I must admit I adore guys' friendship a lot because they always have each others backs. For instance, if a guy asks his friend to cover up for him because his out with another girl. He knows for sure that his boys will have his back. But girls on the other hand, are always ready to sell each other out.

Once I had a best friend who I thought would be my best friend forever. Who shared the same goals and dreams as me. Just to find out she would gossip about me with my classmates. I will just never understand the hatered we have amongst one another. You even get to find the most beautifull girl in the school trying to bring down the nerdy laid back ones.

Where's this tension between us coming from? Our relationship is meant to be like sisterhood.

Sisters should learn to be more comfortable with themselves inorder for them to be able to be comfortable around other sisters. How can we even talk about gender equality when we're fighting each other? But you know what they say: not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until its faced.

Andile Biyana