Lost soul
Nerds aren't bad people really. It's just that they're anti-social. Personally I see that nerds nowadays are being less frequent since now geeks are more accepted to a degree. Music, and especially the internet and videogames had introduced the geek into the mainstream, making it more acceptable and having the mainstream interact with them much more. This might be a forced type of interaction, but from it people are able to find friendship blossom.
So nerds are being less and less....but even rarer is the grown up nerd. I've seen one here up on the northern blue yonder here. And it was pretty scary.
I never really seen many nerds, just only one in my life. Other people are pretty outgoing and even if they exhibit "nerd" attributes there is enough evidence to show that they can surpass it with other activites, say hunting, working, etc. But to truly see a grown up nerd, almost emanating the aura you can feel of low self-esteem, anti social behaviour and especially the lack of confidence that brings "weirdness" into play, it truly frights me.
The thing is, nerds tend to grow out of this stage of awkwardness. They at least find a friend whom they can hang out with oustide of games or whatever that causes them to have a very "business like" partnership in just pleasing themselves in their games or RPGing or activity. But the fact is, why grown up adult nerds are so hard to find is that they grow INTO something. Whether be a punk, evolve to the better geek, architect (you know I'm write..I mean fucking straight lines!) and serial killers. The thing is when they actually grow up they leave the nerd status behind.
He came in, and I could see it in his posture. A shrunken posture, not of a old man, but almost that of a frightened mouse. He looked around early 30s, but he could've have been so "nerdy" he might have really been in his late twenties. He paced the store in his shrunken posture, unsurity in every movement. He searched around, reading comics. I dont' disdane the reading of comics, hell I even do it, my friends do it, I think a lot of people should do it more, but the fact of the matter it was his choice. So I'm being a hypocrite. Sure I like Shinobi, but the fact that he first went to it seem pretty pathetic. But what do I know? I picked it up and even read it, but maybe I'm disgusted because it was a reflection of how I look when I pick up the newest comics to read.
He came up to me asking about whether or not we sell games. I said not that type he asked for, but his dissappointment looked of that of a child. His method of asking was that of a child. To me he was a child.
Sure they might live in regret for being such a nerd in life, but isn't that better than "living" the regret?
Nerds aren't bad people really. It's just that they're anti-social. Personally I see that nerds nowadays are being less frequent since now geeks are more accepted to a degree. Music, and especially the internet and videogames had introduced the geek into the mainstream, making it more acceptable and having the mainstream interact with them much more. This might be a forced type of interaction, but from it people are able to find friendship blossom.
So nerds are being less and less....but even rarer is the grown up nerd. I've seen one here up on the northern blue yonder here. And it was pretty scary.
I never really seen many nerds, just only one in my life. Other people are pretty outgoing and even if they exhibit "nerd" attributes there is enough evidence to show that they can surpass it with other activites, say hunting, working, etc. But to truly see a grown up nerd, almost emanating the aura you can feel of low self-esteem, anti social behaviour and especially the lack of confidence that brings "weirdness" into play, it truly frights me.
The thing is, nerds tend to grow out of this stage of awkwardness. They at least find a friend whom they can hang out with oustide of games or whatever that causes them to have a very "business like" partnership in just pleasing themselves in their games or RPGing or activity. But the fact is, why grown up adult nerds are so hard to find is that they grow INTO something. Whether be a punk, evolve to the better geek, architect (you know I'm write..I mean fucking straight lines!) and serial killers. The thing is when they actually grow up they leave the nerd status behind.
He came in, and I could see it in his posture. A shrunken posture, not of a old man, but almost that of a frightened mouse. He looked around early 30s, but he could've have been so "nerdy" he might have really been in his late twenties. He paced the store in his shrunken posture, unsurity in every movement. He searched around, reading comics. I dont' disdane the reading of comics, hell I even do it, my friends do it, I think a lot of people should do it more, but the fact of the matter it was his choice. So I'm being a hypocrite. Sure I like Shinobi, but the fact that he first went to it seem pretty pathetic. But what do I know? I picked it up and even read it, but maybe I'm disgusted because it was a reflection of how I look when I pick up the newest comics to read.
He came up to me asking about whether or not we sell games. I said not that type he asked for, but his dissappointment looked of that of a child. His method of asking was that of a child. To me he was a child.
Sure they might live in regret for being such a nerd in life, but isn't that better than "living" the regret?
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