They do not matter because no one else can define you as a person. Being “popular” seriously will not matter when you grow up to be an adult because no amount of attention will make you a better person. sometimes it’s better to be an outsider because you can observe the right & wrong in the world. do NOT ever judge someone from being different than you. no one is a “loser” everyone is different and unique in their own way and that does not make them any less valuable than you.
My personal opinion:
Freedom is the ability to do whatever you want, but responsibility is knowing the limits of that power and being able to tell what things are moral and smart to do.
One factor that led to the emergence of romanticism was the need to change the political and social view of the Enlightenment. Is was a reaction to the Industrial Revolution.
The romantic movement in literature began as a reaction to the Enlightenment.