Pizza, Soda, and Science Fiction Contemplation
Being a nerd is the best. I mean, sure you're not going to be the coolest person in school and may get picked on but so what. High school students are like wild animals. They want to have the biggest, most baddest pack, or group of people, around them. So yes, the students that are alone going to have a difficult time getting through high school, and usually the ones left out have some sort of nerdy or "wired" tendency. Real life is a lot more nice than movies and all the nerdy and weird kids don't stay ostracized from each other. They meet up and form their own group of friends and then people tend to leave them alone. Insults from one person directed toward a group tend to have less of an …show more content…
No, I wasn't bullied into isolation, but there was a time when all my nerdy interest embarrassed me. Looking back now, I count myself lucky. I have grown up in a generation where more people than usual enjoy nerd culture. So even though I enjoyed nerdy things it has not caused any big problems. The main problem I had was finding people who shared my same interest and I could act myself around. It all changed around my eighth grade year really. I had just found a group of good friends who I could hang out with and play video games with after school. I wouldn't say we were huge nerds (yet) because almost every guy plays video games. I did not talk to them about all my really nerdy interest like Star Trek and science. My youth pastor gave me the biggest push that year though. As a shy kid coming into the youth group I did not like being in the spotlight. My brother on the other hand loved to be up front, dancing, and having a good time. So naturally when my sister and I started people knew about us, and wanted to see if we shared my brother's enthusiasm. I definitely did not, but that didn't stop Kirk, the youth pastor, from making me the center of attention. He would call me out in small group to hear my opinion on the topic or make me the center of an argument in front of the entire youth group. I didn't really have the option of being shy. I wasn't anywhere near as much of a celebrity as my brother, but I didn't hide myself in the back of …show more content…
If you want to talk about anime or video games all the time with your friends, then you do that. Everyone isn't going to want to listen to you but someone will. The more people that enjoy the same things bring different ideas and perspectives on them. I found those people because I didn't let what other people thought of me determine what I enjoyed and now something funny has actually happened. All these nerdy concepts that my friends and I enjoy have spread to other groups of high schoolers. A good example of this phenomenon is my sister and her friends. Her friends think it so amazing that we would just get together to play video games, watch anime, and talk about any of the nerdy things we wanted to. They said we what we did was cool, which considering we all actively call ourselves nerds, is quite
Being a nerd is the best. I mean, sure you're not going to be the coolest person in school and may get picked on but so what. High school students are like wild animals. They want to have the biggest, most baddest pack, or group of people, around them. So yes, the students that are alone going to have a difficult time getting through high school, and usually the ones left out have some sort of nerdy or "wired" tendency. Real life is a lot more nice than movies and all the nerdy and weird kids don't stay ostracized from each other. They meet up and form their own group of friends and then people tend to leave them alone. Insults from one person directed toward a group tend to have less of an …show more content…
No, I wasn't bullied into isolation, but there was a time when all my nerdy interest embarrassed me. Looking back now, I count myself lucky. I have grown up in a generation where more people than usual enjoy nerd culture. So even though I enjoyed nerdy things it has not caused any big problems. The main problem I had was finding people who shared my same interest and I could act myself around. It all changed around my eighth grade year really. I had just found a group of good friends who I could hang out with and play video games with after school. I wouldn't say we were huge nerds (yet) because almost every guy plays video games. I did not talk to them about all my really nerdy interest like Star Trek and science. My youth pastor gave me the biggest push that year though. As a shy kid coming into the youth group I did not like being in the spotlight. My brother on the other hand loved to be up front, dancing, and having a good time. So naturally when my sister and I started people knew about us, and wanted to see if we shared my brother's enthusiasm. I definitely did not, but that didn't stop Kirk, the youth pastor, from making me the center of attention. He would call me out in small group to hear my opinion on the topic or make me the center of an argument in front of the entire youth group. I didn't really have the option of being shy. I wasn't anywhere near as much of a celebrity as my brother, but I didn't hide myself in the back of …show more content…
If you want to talk about anime or video games all the time with your friends, then you do that. Everyone isn't going to want to listen to you but someone will. The more people that enjoy the same things bring different ideas and perspectives on them. I found those people because I didn't let what other people thought of me determine what I enjoyed and now something funny has actually happened. All these nerdy concepts that my friends and I enjoy have spread to other groups of high schoolers. A good example of this phenomenon is my sister and her friends. Her friends think it so amazing that we would just get together to play video games, watch anime, and talk about any of the nerdy things we wanted to. They said we what we did was cool, which considering we all actively call ourselves nerds, is quite