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Thulorongil · 12-24-2003, 02:05 PM

Well said, Ainaserkewen. What is the point at all in creating labels and sorting people into groups in the first place? What is it really going to accomplish? Sure, you get to have fun thinking of some great word that's going to be used and hated for years to come and then witness everyone's reaction and see everyone start to detest each other, but what's the point in putting effort into things like that when there are so many better ways that you could spend your time? Reading, for example! I'm sure that there are people older and wiser than me reading this thread, thinking back on when they were my age, shuddering at the bad memories, and at the same time wondering why it was such a big deal and why they didn't do anything about it. Well, right now I am my age and right in the thick of battle between the labeled groups. Everyone says that it gets better when people have more important things in their life going on, but why should that matter? Why would degrading other people be the important thing in many people's lives? Once again, what's the point?!

I say, that if you're going to be labeled as something, make the label to be what you want it to be. Make the best of the situation. I've been a Nerd/Geek/Brainiac/whatever else anyone can come up with my entire life. I figure, why fight it? If that's who I am, I don't care about that fact, and there are people out there that can accept the fact that I am who I am and they are who they are, who cares? I have a tight group of friends, and we're all sorted into the Nerd category. But, like I said, we decided not to fight it. We named our group the United Nerds and Geeks of the galaxy, or UNGG/Uhn-guh-guh for short. Nerd and Geek just aren't insults anymore. Now it's more distressing to one of us to be a "Dren" or a "cool" or "popular" person, simply because we chose it to be that way. Other people in our school still have the mindset that they are better than us, but when they say, "You're just too much of a nerd, you nerd!" We just say, "Thankie!"

~Thúle

12-24-2003, 02:05 PM	#29
Thulorongil Haunting Spirit Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: wherever the road may take me Posts: 97	Well said, Ainaserkewen. What is the point at all in creating labels and sorting people into groups in the first place? What is it really going to accomplish? Sure, you get to have fun thinking of some great word that's going to be used and hated for years to come and then witness everyone's reaction and see everyone start to detest each other, but what's the point in putting effort into things like that when there are so many better ways that you could spend your time? Reading, for example! I'm sure that there are people older and wiser than me reading this thread, thinking back on when they were my age, shuddering at the bad memories, and at the same time wondering why it was such a big deal and why they didn't do anything about it. Well, right now I am my age and right in the thick of battle between the labeled groups. Everyone says that it gets better when people have more important things in their life going on, but why should that matter? Why would degrading other people be the important thing in many people's lives? Once again, what's the point?! I say, that if you're going to be labeled as something, make the label to be what you want it to be. Make the best of the situation. I've been a Nerd/Geek/Brainiac/whatever else anyone can come up with my entire life. I figure, why fight it? If that's who I am, I don't care about that fact, and there are people out there that can accept the fact that I am who I am and they are who they are, who cares? I have a tight group of friends, and we're all sorted into the Nerd category. But, like I said, we decided not to fight it. We named our group the United Nerds and Geeks of the galaxy, or UNGG/Uhn-guh-guh for short. Nerd and Geek just aren't insults anymore. Now it's more distressing to one of us to be a "Dren" or a "cool" or "popular" person, simply because we chose it to be that way. Other people in our school still have the mindset that they are better than us, but when they say, "You're just too much of a nerd, you nerd!" We just say, "Thankie!" ~Thúle __________________ I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, And people who will see a world that I shall never know.