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March 21, 2006

Why

Filed under: Opinions, Me, Myself, and I

When I was about six/seven I wanted to hang out with my sisters (one’s six years older, the other’s 2 and eight months) and their friends. And I didn’t want to be the girl who pulled on their hands and asked to sit on their laps or pleaded for a piggyback ride. No, I wanted to be one of them. I was spoiled and young and I was wrong.

Needless to say, I drove my sisters crazy. They’d drum it into my head that I was too young and eventually I’d go away sulking.

I got older. I decided I didn’t need my sisters. I left them alone.

Then I had a birthday. One which kids long for and life for (before 21). I was a teenager. I was one of them. One of the people I had spent the last few years avoiding.

It’s hard to mend that kind of damage. I didn’t hate the others - I just didn’t know how to interact with them. The years I had spent by myself or with the little kids I had spent thinking. Sometimes dreaming, but thinking. Not about politics - not back then - but about life, school, how things work, why the world is how it is. Then I would dream of a better place.

The teenage groups I’m usually around think about movies, life, clothes, boyfriends - something I’m in no need of at this age, and not much else.

There’s a saying I know:

Small minds discuss people,
Average minds discuss events,
Great minds discuss ideas.

I’m not accussing them of being ’smallminded’ but I’m not comfortable with that kind of thinking.

I guess that’s part of what drew me, a teen, to political blogging. I’ve always held strongly to my opinions unless proven wrong in a debate (and then I’ll quickly learn more facts about the other side.) And the political blogosphere produced an atmosphere, that although I was (am…) towards the bottom, I’m expected to be thinking. About life, and what people can do to make life better. And then I care share my views with the world

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  1. Hey–
    i’m impressed with the depth and thought you’ve put into your blog! good work! i’m thinking you may be interested in a teen opinions site run by teens and designed for teens. www.teenspeakonline.com

    Comment by Victor — March 22, 2006 @ 1:19 am

  2. I guess that’s one of the “advantages” to having been a nerd in high school. I never really had to worry about interacting with others. :)
    I was a very quiet and very shy kid in school, but after I escaped the small town where I was already branded as a nerd I blossomed into the irritating loudmouth I am today!

    So basically, don’t worry if you find yourself not identifying with kids your age or with the people around you. There are lost of other people out there you WILL identify with.

    Comment by Kevin Johnson — March 22, 2006 @ 3:33 pm

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