Sunday, October 12, 2014

It's a hard nerd life, for us

Hello Nerds!
                Sometimes it’s hard to be a nerd; sometimes you’re shunned by society, branded as an outcast, a non- intellectual, and the list goes on; I’ve never liked being an outcast, but have faced it on many occasions.
                The most common place: the lunch room at my high school…….*Breaks out laughing* just kidding I don’t eat that crappy food!!!!! More seriously though, the hardest place is generally in the classroom, where the nonintellectuals, and even sometimes football players and athletes will try to act like your friend, and act like they’re interested in you and your nerd life. Like Holden Caulfield said (quite often, too) “they’re a bunch of Phonies”, which they are.
                They don’t understand that what they do is not only a waste of their effort, but of ours as well and mildly insulting at times. When you start a conversation with a nerd, don’t think of it as starting a conversation with a nerd, thing about just talking to the person, not their obsession. I mean, no-one ever went up to Bruce Wayne and asked him about his dead parents, but I can assure you both Bruce and the nerd would take it the same way: very insulting and mildly agitating… the only difference being that Bruce would probably send you through a wall, where as I would send you through the door with my gripping of your shirt and escorting you out of my sight.
                Nothing can be more upsetting to me when Phonies try to be my friend, when all they want is your attention, when they do this I try to find a phrase to shut them down without angering them, just stopping them right in their tracks.
                So the next time you try to talk to someone’s passion or obsession, just don’t, ok? And if you’re the one being bullied by them, just don’t even acknowledge their existence and see how better your life is.
Resistance is Futile

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