Ahh, social interaction; easy for some, hard for others. It all depends on the subject, environment, and the crowd. Which is what we're here to talk about today: Your social environment, whether it be that you fit in, you feel like an outcast, or that you accept that you're all different. What is your crowd like? Give us some examples of individuals whose personalities you like/dislike, and what yours is like? What do you like/dislike about yourself? You can sorta see where this is going. Make yourself see more human, rather than a bunch of text with an avatar, badges and a post count.
Being me, I'll state an overly-verbose example from my background, I'll put this in a spoiler box,you don't have to read it if you don't want to, but I'd appreciate it if some of you did, it took me ages to type. If you do read it, quote and snip my post, just so I know if you did or not..
So there you have it, a view from my perspective (if you read it). Again, if you did read it, quote my first post, it'd be nice to know who read what I had to say (even if my text does rival that of Hideo Kojima)
The poll is added there just as something extra, or if you don't want to write an entire post (lazy bugger!).
EDIT: Feel free to add long posts yourself. Humnas have complicated minds and personalities, so you can take time to explain it if you so wish.
Being me, I'll state an overly-verbose example from my background, I'll put this in a spoiler box,you don't have to read it if you don't want to, but I'd appreciate it if some of you did, it took me ages to type. If you do read it, quote and snip my post, just so I know if you did or not..
Currently being in a UK college, it's full of the loutish, boozing, arrogant, fornicating, stereotypical teenage crowd that the media would have you believe that we're all like. But I know that we're not, we're as diverse as all of humanity, just on the more subtle details.
Let me try and explain 'me': Geek/nerd at heart; likes rock, old-style metal, funk, orchestral pop music (weird mix); long hair; quite tall, skinny build; not that socially confident (there's a girl that I like but I'm just waaaaay too nervous to talk to her casually in general); logically-minded (doing A-level Maths, not too good at English/Music/etc.).
Now, I feel that I'm quite different to the crowd I hang around with. The crowd I hang around with is a more musically minded crowd (we hang around in the Performing Arts section of the college), and their personalities are waaay different to mine. People who also hang around there are the aforementioned loud drinkers who have rampant sex at parties.
I sometimes feel that when I'm hanging around with the musical people, I feel inferior. They play musical instruments (very well), which is a cool thing and can help them be really successful, they all have a laugh about strange stuff that they've done that seems out-of-this-world compared to my life, and I feel left out sometimes. But then I remember that I'm doing A-level Maths and Mechanics, a f**king difficult subject at A-level. I also remember that my ambition (become a games programmer) can also make me successful. If they ever tried to say that I'm inferior, I can reply with "Can you do A-level Maths? Can expand polynomial expressions in your head? Can you tell me what angles will have the same cosine on a scale of 0 to 360 degrees?" and this makes me feel better.
With the whole alcoholic crowd, happenings at a recent party made me realise something. At this party, everyone was getting drunk out of their heads, and loads of people were having sex. Now, being a teenage geek, I'm anxious for my first experience, and of course I'd feel a bit jealous about this. But when I think that what they do is get p**sed out of their heads, listen to awful music, have sex with people and be arrogant twats about it later, think they're superior to people who haven't done either of these things, I realised: I never want to be associated with that kind of crowd. I'd rather sit at home on my laptop, listen to Gene Page, Barry White, Kool & the Gang or Joe Satriani, and explore the Escapist (a community that is all about what I want to do with my life).
'Quick' bit about relationships. I've had one girlfriend, that's it. I hang around with people who are getting into (what seem to be) serious relationships with each other. Now, I'm not going to explain this, I'm just going to say that I feel a bit left out, just to point out. As I mentioned before, there is a girl that I like, but I'm just too nervous to say anything. My normal (if not pathetic) method of ice-breaking would be to get to know them through MSN (not Facebook, don't get me started on that), but she doesn't have anything like that (not even Gadu-Gadu).
Let me try and explain 'me': Geek/nerd at heart; likes rock, old-style metal, funk, orchestral pop music (weird mix); long hair; quite tall, skinny build; not that socially confident (there's a girl that I like but I'm just waaaaay too nervous to talk to her casually in general); logically-minded (doing A-level Maths, not too good at English/Music/etc.).
Now, I feel that I'm quite different to the crowd I hang around with. The crowd I hang around with is a more musically minded crowd (we hang around in the Performing Arts section of the college), and their personalities are waaay different to mine. People who also hang around there are the aforementioned loud drinkers who have rampant sex at parties.
I sometimes feel that when I'm hanging around with the musical people, I feel inferior. They play musical instruments (very well), which is a cool thing and can help them be really successful, they all have a laugh about strange stuff that they've done that seems out-of-this-world compared to my life, and I feel left out sometimes. But then I remember that I'm doing A-level Maths and Mechanics, a f**king difficult subject at A-level. I also remember that my ambition (become a games programmer) can also make me successful. If they ever tried to say that I'm inferior, I can reply with "Can you do A-level Maths? Can expand polynomial expressions in your head? Can you tell me what angles will have the same cosine on a scale of 0 to 360 degrees?" and this makes me feel better.
With the whole alcoholic crowd, happenings at a recent party made me realise something. At this party, everyone was getting drunk out of their heads, and loads of people were having sex. Now, being a teenage geek, I'm anxious for my first experience, and of course I'd feel a bit jealous about this. But when I think that what they do is get p**sed out of their heads, listen to awful music, have sex with people and be arrogant twats about it later, think they're superior to people who haven't done either of these things, I realised: I never want to be associated with that kind of crowd. I'd rather sit at home on my laptop, listen to Gene Page, Barry White, Kool & the Gang or Joe Satriani, and explore the Escapist (a community that is all about what I want to do with my life).
'Quick' bit about relationships. I've had one girlfriend, that's it. I hang around with people who are getting into (what seem to be) serious relationships with each other. Now, I'm not going to explain this, I'm just going to say that I feel a bit left out, just to point out. As I mentioned before, there is a girl that I like, but I'm just too nervous to say anything. My normal (if not pathetic) method of ice-breaking would be to get to know them through MSN (not Facebook, don't get me started on that), but she doesn't have anything like that (not even Gadu-Gadu).
So there you have it, a view from my perspective (if you read it). Again, if you did read it, quote my first post, it'd be nice to know who read what I had to say (even if my text does rival that of Hideo Kojima)
The poll is added there just as something extra, or if you don't want to write an entire post (lazy bugger!).
EDIT: Feel free to add long posts yourself. Humnas have complicated minds and personalities, so you can take time to explain it if you so wish.
