Feb 11 2004, 5:56 pm
In response to Kujila
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Goku72
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I hate you >.<
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As much as others will probably disagree with me, it is OK to label things. It is human nature to simplify things into categories. I think that it is very easy to classify people by appearance, but not necessarily personality.
In high school, I wore a lot of black. Not because I wanted to look scary, I just thought I looked good in black B). Anyway, people labeled me as 'loner', which I guess I was, at least until people thought it was cool to be a loner. Then I got kind of popular. I mean, I wasn't as popular as the 'jocks' or whatever, but I had alot of friends. Then I switched schools and everybody thought I was a freak. =D. | |
Brigadier General.
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I find myself more and more coming around to this way of thinking... it's a very, well... object-oriented way of interacting with the world. You define a class, assign it certain characteristics which you can assume most instances of that class will have inherited, and it saves on processor time and memory.
The problem isn't using labels, it's using labels poorly. A new addendum to my philosophy of life is that assumptions should be used as a starting point rather than an ending point of thought. Your assumptions give you something to work with in drawing conclusions, they are not conclusions in and of themselves. | |
There was a girl who switched to my highschool in the middle of one of my final semesters. On her first day, she told me I was the only normal person she had found. I soon mentioned a dead fly that was stuck to a window by its side. She hung her head low. We never saw her again.
I was a freak who could talk to anyone but I never went to gatherings outside of school. Now, I'm an older freak who can talk to voices in my head and I never go to gatherings at all. ;) | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
I find myself more and more coming around to this way of thinking... it's a very, well... object-oriented way of interacting with the world. You define a class, assign it certain characteristics which you can assume most instances of that class will have inherited, and it saves on processor time and memory. Hah, nice analogy! | |
I smashed flies onto the window beside me in math class all last semester. I found out they dont clean the windows.
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FireEmblem wrote:
You know in middle school/high school/college, they had ranks like Athelete, Nerd, Prep, Idiot, Dork, Geek, Loner ..etc. No, not really; I had the luxury of going to a small, very rural high school*. The standard system of cliques and labels breaks down rather rapidly when any given member of the class belongs to at least half of them. *(This is one of the leading reasons why I'm innately superior to the rest of you, at least as applies to what is presumably the vast majority of you. It's right behind such compelling reasons as "Because I'm me" and "Just cuz".) | |
Hedgemistress wrote:
We never saw her again. Both, I guess. The dead fly served its purpose by protecting my freakhood and was probably wiped off by a janitor. This is unlike the dead flies at my college, which gathered next to the benches for months at a time to tell people I was a lowly commuter who had no dorm to sit in. The girl left after a single day of school. Perhaps I'm so much of an idiot that I chose to make a bad joke instead of making a precious bond that may have prevented me from becoming a lonely 27 year old. However, somewhere in freak heaven, I think I'm remembered as having fulfilled a duty. | |
I was always considered the "smart" guy for the early years of high school, then I transfered into the dorky buff guy, and then to the skinny nerd...
quite a lot of transitioning... but I guess i liked changing the way people saw me because it opened up more view points of the way people interact with me during each phase... I never really like to stick to one thing, I love change :) now I'm trying to transition from being a skinny nerd to athletic hunk but somehow I'm failing! haha | |
Field Marshall
I don't really like labels. Mainly because I'm considered pretty much a 'geek'/'nerd' (this is because I spend so much time at ICT club programing Maestro). | |
ACWraith wrote:
Perhaps I'm so much of an idiot that I chose to make a bad joke instead of making a precious bond that may have prevented me from becoming a lonely 27 year old. Yeah, but you would have been living a lie. At least now one day you can look back and say, "Yeah, I passed up the love of my life for a bad fly joke, but at least I stood my ground", and people will respect you for it. | |
FireEmblem wrote:
You know in middle school/high school/college, they had ranks like Athelete, Nerd, Prep, Idiot, Dork, Geek, Loner ..etc. Hmmm.....lets say a geek who is popular?? | |
I'm not really sure... I think I'm just the average <s>air</s>joe. I'm not some "geeky-loser-nerd" who is picked on all the time, even though I consider myslef pretty smart, and do get good grades, but I'm not jock or "sk8ter" or "goth" or whatever. I "hang out" (Hanging out usually means sitting together at lunch) with different groups, depending on the sizes. Like I said, I'm not the most popular, so I'm easily moved to the far end of the table. That's not the most fun, so I move to a different table. (rectangular tables, some schools have circular) So, I'm not really sure. Whatever :-)
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I'm very confused. There is a large section of my year that look up to me, and claim to respect me, and treat me as if I were very popular, even though I really don't want to. I think of myself as rather clever, yet my distinct lack of effort to study gives me only just above average grades. Yet, even with this large section of the year treating me as popular, there are then a smaller group, of about 30 (there are 120 in my year) that treat me like some SUPER-DBZ_L33T!11!!eleven!!11l-nerdy-lamo!
I'm sure I'm not nerdy, and yet neither particularily feeble nor strong. I don't know what I am! ~Ease~ | |