[Narona]

Originally Posted by SaintessHeart

Spoiler for Off Topic, A little more about my past:

I have a few police records. One for shoplifting, one for rioting, the rest which I can't remember after getting bashed on the head a few times. I was tired of getting bullied in school, and the teachers treat me like a disobedient and rude student (they told me to grow up, I told them the same thing and asked if they can't grow up to accept reality of people who think differently. I got detention.). I got hit with the fact that most teachers, and some principals, their helpfulness is just a facade. Like every other office politician, they desire money and reputation. This is selfishness to the most disgusting extent, and probably what made me hate school, my schoolmates, people around me and triggered the homicidal inferiority complex in me.

This is what kills idealism, sets a double standard for pragmatism and screws reality in favour of political meritocracy as social darwinism. I know a few victims of this, one who committed suicide (she is a friend from another school, jumped 10+ floors in front of me and a few friends), one who went from top student to a patient at the mental institute (I heard he died, never found out if it is true or not), and a friend's brother who committed suicide too (his brother feigns resignation, don't know how he feels deep inside).

Sure one can say, survival of the fittest, but are these people even given a chance to fight for themselves in the first place? I think not. Some choose to run away (Justin's brother), some face it head on and almost drove themselves mad (me, thus my infamous "skull of steel" known to my parents and friends), while others just accept it and adapt accordingly (most of the youth, that is why they set the "normal" standards to their own liking when they climb the corporate ladder).

This is supposed to be a "pessimist's" view on modern society. I doubt the "optimist's" will be anywhere but similarly biased.

Welcome to the real world, where reality is nonetheless surreal, and day to day you trust your instincts, live by your wits, survive on your spirit and wish upon something called hope.

Teachers and other people are human. Therefore they can't be perfect and can do mistakes. I don't say that to excuse them, but I think it should be said.

About being opimistic and pessimistic, my parents never said to me that the world is a perfect place in which I will live happily with a pink poney. Actually, they always were very blunt about how the world is. A person has to do many efforts to climb the ladder, and to be careful. Sadly, it can happen that a person won't be able to do it due to many factors. It's like trying to cook without any ingredients or with bad ingredients. Expecting to do a marvelous dish is out of the question.

On a society/commune pov, it's quite the same. Without becoming a bad person by using wrong means to obtain what you want, if you don't give all you've got, you might not be able to make a step forward. At least, it should be a good thing to try, so then you will not have any regrets. But again, a kid can't do much by himself, that's why he/she needs his/her parents.

Keep in mind that I don't lecture you at all. I don't have any right to do this.

Nicely done. Value add it by wrapping it up with a "See you in hell" with a middle finger wielded by the Statue Of Liberty (all puns within are intentional).

It reminds me something. The Statue of Liberty was a present from the French xD. Bartholdi was the one who sculpted the statue. And he said something famous:

"I will fight for the Liberty. I will call from free people. I will glorify the Republic there, waiting to find it back here, someday."

I owe these guys for accepting me for who I am, and come to think of it, not all those kind of guys are bad. Some of them are just acting like that to be "as cool as their buddies". Peer pressure affects all youths, even the sensible ones.

When you don't fit the norm, it's not always easy to be accepted by the other people. I don't say that sometimes they don't have good reasons to criticize a person, but it can happen that they will pressure somebody without any good reason.

That's something I know quite well, because it happened to me to be criticized badly without any good reason. But I am not the kind of people who bows in front of that type of person, or who needs lots of friends to live happily.

Originally Posted by Anh_Minh

As for the "still single" thing... While it's probably too early to worry, the older you are, the more set in your ways you become. And if those ways include "being a recluse", well...

I could try to understand if the boy was 30. But he is so, so young. He has still all the time for that. Right now, that's not the problem. Actually, i will say that at this age, you better try to make the most of the time you can spend with your family, because those particular moments at this particular age won't last. But maybe I am part of the few people who really enjoyed to spend time with my family during my early teens, and even now.