Quiet_Cool
Learning to Fly
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I think the problem we have in this thread is that we're not really accounting for "everyone." For the most part, we're people who are (or see ourselves as) artistic, which means the individualists inside of do a lot of speaking, and for that matter, we also find it hard to believe that we would fit a stereotype. Most of us did, because there are so many like us that we've always been our own and didn't realize.
A clique? I'd say I was in a small group (went to a small school) who didn't really fit a stereotype, since the school was mainly white middle-class, country-types, and everyone knows but doesn't necessarily like everyone. We had a jock, a wannabe jock/wannabe cool guy, the smartass (we were all smartasses, but this guy just needed beaten for it; one of those insulting people is fun guys), the artists (though we all fit in there too, but this guy was a pop-art master, I think he directs movies now, Independant Films), the quiet guy
rolleyes , and the girl, who was kinda a mix between us all.
Not really a clique, per se, like the jocks or the nerds, but a group that I sorta fit into.
doubt that answers your question, but...
Anyway, while this has probably been said and reiterated and I've forgotten it, I feel that what we do there doesn't really, per se, emotionally stunt our growth, or slow it, but more or less define it. It gives us a measure of who we are socially, giving us a predetermined sense of identity, not so much giving us hang-ups about ourselves that we relive, but making us someone who goes back to the same issues because they themselves are the issue. I'm realizing lately that things I'm dealing with today are the same things I dealt with back then, and it seems like it's because I've become what I was told I was, and don't know life in different shoes. I hate to say that, because the whole "don't judge till you walk a mile" bit is often just an excuse not to look at life legitimately, but...
Chattering mindlessly,
Q_C
A clique? I'd say I was in a small group (went to a small school) who didn't really fit a stereotype, since the school was mainly white middle-class, country-types, and everyone knows but doesn't necessarily like everyone. We had a jock, a wannabe jock/wannabe cool guy, the smartass (we were all smartasses, but this guy just needed beaten for it; one of those insulting people is fun guys), the artists (though we all fit in there too, but this guy was a pop-art master, I think he directs movies now, Independant Films), the quiet guy
rolleyes , and the girl, who was kinda a mix between us all.Not really a clique, per se, like the jocks or the nerds, but a group that I sorta fit into.
doubt that answers your question, but...
Anyway, while this has probably been said and reiterated and I've forgotten it, I feel that what we do there doesn't really, per se, emotionally stunt our growth, or slow it, but more or less define it. It gives us a measure of who we are socially, giving us a predetermined sense of identity, not so much giving us hang-ups about ourselves that we relive, but making us someone who goes back to the same issues because they themselves are the issue. I'm realizing lately that things I'm dealing with today are the same things I dealt with back then, and it seems like it's because I've become what I was told I was, and don't know life in different shoes. I hate to say that, because the whole "don't judge till you walk a mile" bit is often just an excuse not to look at life legitimately, but...
Chattering mindlessly,
Q_C
