The **** do you think? I was the worst kind of nerd: the angry nerd. So I was awkward, weird, and in general had no qualities that kids around me wanted anything to do with. On the other hand, I had a big mouth and an elephant-sized chip on my shoulder, so any bullying I suffered I made exponentially worse by mouthing off to people I had no business antagonizing.
I continued in this way up till my last two years of school, which I spent in a military boarding school with 150 delinquents with personality disorders, where I had to learn to keep my mouth shut for the sake of my own survival (I once witnessed my roommate get a knife pulled on him, so I'm only kind of exaggerating). I was only moderately successful, so while I didn't die, I didn't have a whole lot of friends either.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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