Enter the Geek.
The Geek is one who is passionate about something. The old definition which contrasts with nerd needs to be changed. Geeks come in many flavors: Band Geeks, Computer Geeks, Performance Geeks, Sports Geeks, and School/Grade Geeks. Are many conformists afraid to become their inner geek due to the judging of others? I consider myself a computer geek and a weight lifting geek. I will often choose some time on my PC over time with my sister, friends, or sports. Hey, there is nothing wrong with it. I want to major in IT so why not start now? I blog, buy 400 dollar PC components, and even spend time to do 3 hour long software checks. While this means nothing to you readers, my hobbies are vital parts of my chosen career path. I also spend roughly 20 hours a week keeping fit, so the traditional "geek build" doesn't fit me.
I feel that it is unhealthy to not let out your inner geek. How will you know what you want to do with your life if you follow someone else's judgments? Sure it is our teen years. Hey, we are going to live forever, right? Not hardly. In 10 years from now, it won't matter what shoes you wore, what labels you had, or what clique you associated with, but what you learned. This is the time to get priorities straight and learn life lessons before we must learn them the hard way. Why conform and in 10 years regret it when we can be ourselves now and forever be content with our inner beings? Who the hell cares who is judging? Have you ever laughed out loud during a movie, screamed in a mall, or ran around at a park, embracing life? Have you ever thought "Oh, if I do that, they will think I am in idiot" when you are at the Plaza and when you know you will never see the people shopping around you again?
The bottom line is to be yourself and if you must conform, think about your future. Conforming is so yesterday. You no longer have to be hot to be a leadership figure. I see people all over who follow their own paths and have significent leadership in school activities. It is time to take the road wanting wear and find your future away from your peers. It is no longer a bad thing to be independent.
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See, he's got it figured out. I was never a conformist in high school, but I always had a problem with what other people were thinking about me. In a way, I still relapse into that occasionally, as evidenced by my blog posts and fiery temper occasionally when I get put into the barrel. The most important thing of all is to be confident about what you are doing with yourself. If you really enjoy, who knows, let's just say doing audio work, that's one of my numerous hobbies, and people bash you and call you a geek because that's all you ever talk about. Well, if you really feel like it's okay to spend as much time as you do on whatever, fuck the rest of them. Like he said, there's only so much time in the world, and the time you spend learning things or honing skills will come back to you, even when you least expect it. Hell, I played bass for two years and completely stopped for another year before I ever did anything worthwhile with it, and now I'm quite pleased that I took the time and improved my craft. I took public speaking in high school knowing I was going into computer science, which has nothing to do with talking. Here I wind up doing a radio show. You can't just fool around all the time and expect your life to unfold the way you want it to. To what you want to do, but please, folks, be about your business. Be serious about what you do. You'll see the effects more quickly than you think.
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