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She's a square wheel.
Jul. 26th, 2011 01:53 pmI think I know what the difference between being young and being old is.
Now that I am old, I just *shrug* when someone who is doing something outre finds that it attracts negative attention and wants to whine about it.
When I was young, those kinds of choices were cool and I admired those people and thought everyone should admire them too.
Now I just wonder why the fuck they can't get along with everyone else and have to shove their differences in everyone's face. I'm still pretty tolerant in that I don't really care what they do as long as it doesn't affect me or mine, but I have zero sympathy when they're unhappy that people stare at their facial tattoos and pierced throat as they walk down the sidewalk with unwashed matted hair and wearing rags that would have been rejected by 80s hair bands.
The point of making yourself different is so you're noticed. So you get no sympathy if you're noticed when you want to be noticed. If you deliberately go out of your way to appear different when you do not want to be noticed and complain about it to me, I am going to think you're stupid. Stupidity is never cool. When I was young, I didn't recognize stupidity and didn't notice its detracting effect.
When I was younger, I didn't care why someone was making themselves different or what kind of attention they attracted... being different was awesome and everyone should love that. I really didn't understand the point of trying to get along with other people.
When you're a mayfly, all summer in a day, teenager, there really isn't a lot of point in learning good manners and how to appear to fit in. Why would you want to bother with that shit? But now that I am old, I think it's really disrespectful that no one puts any effort into learning the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone. I had to learn it laboriously and painfully myself, so where do these punks get off recreating the wheel and telling me I'm too square to roll?
I don't fit in amazingly well, but I don't go out of my way to make myself so different that there's no chance I can even stand in a queue without people staring. In other words, I can't fake being a normal human for very long at a stretch, but some of these people can't even come close.
Do they even realize how awful those facial tattoos are going to look in 20 years when the skin droops into wrinkles and folds until the tattoo looks like a MAD fold-in? Yeah. I don't think so.
Now that I am old, I just *shrug* when someone who is doing something outre finds that it attracts negative attention and wants to whine about it.
When I was young, those kinds of choices were cool and I admired those people and thought everyone should admire them too.
Now I just wonder why the fuck they can't get along with everyone else and have to shove their differences in everyone's face. I'm still pretty tolerant in that I don't really care what they do as long as it doesn't affect me or mine, but I have zero sympathy when they're unhappy that people stare at their facial tattoos and pierced throat as they walk down the sidewalk with unwashed matted hair and wearing rags that would have been rejected by 80s hair bands.
The point of making yourself different is so you're noticed. So you get no sympathy if you're noticed when you want to be noticed. If you deliberately go out of your way to appear different when you do not want to be noticed and complain about it to me, I am going to think you're stupid. Stupidity is never cool. When I was young, I didn't recognize stupidity and didn't notice its detracting effect.
When I was younger, I didn't care why someone was making themselves different or what kind of attention they attracted... being different was awesome and everyone should love that. I really didn't understand the point of trying to get along with other people.
When you're a mayfly, all summer in a day, teenager, there really isn't a lot of point in learning good manners and how to appear to fit in. Why would you want to bother with that shit? But now that I am old, I think it's really disrespectful that no one puts any effort into learning the rules that are supposed to apply to everyone. I had to learn it laboriously and painfully myself, so where do these punks get off recreating the wheel and telling me I'm too square to roll?
I don't fit in amazingly well, but I don't go out of my way to make myself so different that there's no chance I can even stand in a queue without people staring. In other words, I can't fake being a normal human for very long at a stretch, but some of these people can't even come close.
Do they even realize how awful those facial tattoos are going to look in 20 years when the skin droops into wrinkles and folds until the tattoo looks like a MAD fold-in? Yeah. I don't think so.
