Highschool... and self-liberating shit
Some people didn't "get me" in highschool - it happens all the time to people who are eccentric and creative. For an exaggerated example, look at Napoleon Dynamite. The people who found me insane and weird were the same people who will grow up living boring lives as insurance brokers and secretaties, living in a brown house, with a white pickett fence and a dog. The American dream, right?
Well, if people are happy to live so conventionally, then I'm happy for them, but it was never for me. I don't understand how so many people can be brain clones of each other, blindly following trends and the media like conformist sheep. They have no real sense of self, and the worst part is, many of them aren't even aware of it.
They have an abundance of friends and seem to have it all, yet so many of their friendships are so shallow. They talk and gossip, yet never discuss anything of true substance. There is only so much one can extract from who's sleeping with who, boys, and fashion. Such a grand amount of people either decline deep discussion because they're either afraid to delve so deep into their psyche, or they don't know themselves very well.
I had my phases like this, where I did the same. I acted like it was being "me" but really, I was trying to fit into a mold. Fuck the molds. I'm anything and everything, and most of us are, if we could just be ourselves.
I can't say my childhood was a happy time - in fact, I can't even think of one great memory. But if you look at most comedians, a dysfunctional childhood is a must. :P (That was, of course, tongue in cheek. Yes, many comedians have had depressing childhoods, but some of them have also had positive upbringings - look at Will Ferrell.)
I love myself, though. I'm fabulous. And as long as *I* believe it, the whole world can disagree, and I won't care.
Well, if people are happy to live so conventionally, then I'm happy for them, but it was never for me. I don't understand how so many people can be brain clones of each other, blindly following trends and the media like conformist sheep. They have no real sense of self, and the worst part is, many of them aren't even aware of it.
They have an abundance of friends and seem to have it all, yet so many of their friendships are so shallow. They talk and gossip, yet never discuss anything of true substance. There is only so much one can extract from who's sleeping with who, boys, and fashion. Such a grand amount of people either decline deep discussion because they're either afraid to delve so deep into their psyche, or they don't know themselves very well.
I had my phases like this, where I did the same. I acted like it was being "me" but really, I was trying to fit into a mold. Fuck the molds. I'm anything and everything, and most of us are, if we could just be ourselves.
I can't say my childhood was a happy time - in fact, I can't even think of one great memory. But if you look at most comedians, a dysfunctional childhood is a must. :P (That was, of course, tongue in cheek. Yes, many comedians have had depressing childhoods, but some of them have also had positive upbringings - look at Will Ferrell.)
I love myself, though. I'm fabulous. And as long as *I* believe it, the whole world can disagree, and I won't care.