Copy and pasted from my blog.. but this version is a little cleaned up.
I love being a geek. It sets me apart from all the members of the "in-crowd". Actually, that's something I have to address. There is no in-crowd. It doesn't exist. It's a lie conocted by movies and television to scare people like me. The "in-crowd" you may be referring to are the people who feel the need to be braggy, be angsty, or be insulting to others. You may know the type.
In recent years, thanks to the crap band that is Good Charlotte, the term "geek" has been thrown around like someone who uses stupid slang and dresses as if Hot Topic threw up on them. (Hot Topic is the devil.) This is not a geek, ladies and gents. It's a lie.. like the "in-crowd".
Back to the original point of the post. Today, my friend Brady (nickname "Bunch") and I were in the line for our daily lunch. We were talking about the movie COLLATERAL (which rules, by the way, pick it up). There was a girl in front of us whom I know vaguely but don't know anything about, including her name. She looked at me for a second and I noticed this and asked what she was doing. She said "Aren't you that Jack **** (this is my last name, sorry.. can't be revealed) kid? The movie freak?" To which I reply with a casual "Indeedy-o." She says "Seriously, do you EVER go outside and be normal like the rest of us?" I reply "Clarify normal. You mean dressing like everybody else, talking like everybody else, and making fun of everybody who ISN'T like everybody else?" She walked away in disgust. I wasn't at all scathed by her remarks, but it made me think about how tough life can be for a guy like me sometimes. A lotta people think that life isn't like teen movies, where the geeks are picked on, but in my school, it's very much the case.
Although I'm very proud of being a geek, every now and then, I gotta deal with BADWORDs. There's always somebody who hears about how often I watch movies, and they say something like, "you have way too much time on your hands, heh-heh," or the much more brazen, "you need to get a life." Usually, I just give a polite fake laugh, but in my head, I'm thinking, "go to BADWORD, you single-digit IQ BADWORD." The incident today just made me angry, so I replied with something besides my usual loud smirk. The way I see it, how I choose to spend my time is just that; the way I choose to spend my time. Some people like movies, some people like sports, some people like STAR TREK, and some people like getting drunk on Saturday and waking up in puddles of their own puke and ::Dolphin Noise:: on Sunday. What you like may not be what I like, and vice versa, and we should each respect that.
But actually, in reality, there is no normal. Nothing and no one are alike. So who's to say what the normal thing is?
