Planet Freedom

TheDarkRises wrote:

Whelt wrote:You can be one of the guys who goes and acts subtly strange in public enough to get a few weird looks, but not enough to draw too much attention. THOSE GUYS ROCK

Yeah, they're great and all, but I just want to show that I can be a nice, peaceful person without having to actually talk

Tough, that. Most teenagers seem to automatically think not talking = antisocial, creepy. I don't always like to talk, and I wish the environment didn't make me feel like I had to.

Now I do talk a lot, but only to people I know. However I do know a fair amount of people. I never go do anything with people outside of school though.

Whelt wrote:You can be one of the guys who goes and acts subtly strange in public enough to get a few weird looks, but not enough to draw too much attention. THOSE GUYS ROCK

OMG I NO! where a gray hoodie and walk around with your hands in your pockets, but while listening to your mp3 player! youll be so conspicuously inconspicuous!

in all seriousness, just start more casual conversations.

Maybe I just need a little more laughter in my life...

Whelt wrote:

TheDarkRises wrote:

Whelt wrote:You can be one of the guys who goes and acts subtly strange in public enough to get a few weird looks, but not enough to draw too much attention. THOSE GUYS ROCK

Yeah, they're great and all, but I just want to show that I can be a nice, peaceful person without having to actually talk

I never go do anything with people outside of school though.

Same here

I used to not talk much because I thought I had nothing important to say. But the thing is, almost all conversation is pointless. So you just talk for the sake of talking, and say any stupid thing and it will pass.

I don't try to be too normal though. I like being thought of as somewhat weird, but in a good way. Not too weird as to avoid in fear.

Whelt wrote:I used to not talk much because I thought I had nothing important to say. But the thing is, almost all conversation is pointless. So you just talk for the sake of talking, and say any stupid thing and it will pass.

That is a very good point. It makes me feel a lot better now.

I find it amusing that people are talking about shyness and antisocial behavior on an internet forum largely associated with a genre of videos that is to a great extent based on alienating its audience and violating viewer expectations.

As far as having a good social life goes, having a lot of friends is a load of crap. Honesty makes for good friendships, ones which you will not end up wondering why you are someone's friend to begin with. Having one good friend is worth a hell of a lot more than having a shitload of people at your back.

RabbitSnore wrote:As far as having a good social life goes, having a lot of friends is a load of crap. Honesty makes for good friendships, ones which you will not end up wondering why you are someone's friend to begin with. Having one good friend is worth a hell of a lot more than having a shitload of people at your back.

I don't want more friends. I just don't want people to get the impression I'm a creep. =/

TheDarkRises wrote:

RabbitSnore wrote:As far as having a good social life goes, having a lot of friends is a load of crap. Honesty makes for good friendships, ones which you will not end up wondering why you are someone's friend to begin with. Having one good friend is worth a hell of a lot more than having a shitload of people at your back.

I don't want more friends. I just don't want people to get the impression I'm a creep. =/

I don't give a damn what people think of me most of the time.

It's a fine way to live when you care little about judgment.

RabbitSnore wrote:

TheDarkRises wrote:

RabbitSnore wrote:As far as having a good social life goes, having a lot of friends is a load of crap. Honesty makes for good friendships, ones which you will not end up wondering why you are someone's friend to begin with. Having one good friend is worth a hell of a lot more than having a shitload of people at your back.

I don't want more friends. I just don't want people to get the impression I'm a creep. =/

I don't give a damn what people think of me most of the time.

It's a fine way to live when you care little about judgment.

TRUE THAT. PEOPLE LOVE IT WHEN I DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR JUDGMENT. NO JOKE.

TurkeyBeef wrote:I wouldn't know what makes a good social life because I haven't had a single friend in over five years. I never talk...

Says the guy with 168 posts on this forum

My social life is slightly below average, but not to the point where everyone hates me or I have no friends...I just don't have a ton of friends. Be yourself, find people with similar interests.

**HINT HINT**
Group projects in school help a lot!

or, you could just move to another state and dress like an emo...or not.

I dunno. I keep in touch with some of my high school friends, who I've known since the middle of 5th grade, when we moved out of Philly. We on't keep in touch as often as we should. A lot of them got addicted to weed and WoW. WoW more or less destroyed one of my closest friend's social lives, and he's still addicted to it. But it's not like they all do that shit. Some smoke, some drink, some just don't do anything, like me.

Other than them there's Jokemoblin and Retro, both of whom I've known for well over a decade now and really nothing's changed since when we were kids. All three of us were born in Philly and went to the same Catholic school. They're both a few months younger than me, so I was a grade higher than them (My birthday's August 22nd. Had I been born a few weeks later, I'd have been in the same grade as them). We met in the after school program in the school, which Retro didn't go to all that often. Then eventually in 1998 or so we, by coincidence, all went to the same summer day care place thing which I had been going to for years. The three of us were always doing shit like making comics and whatnot (Which we still have) and just overall random shit. Those were good times. Retro moved out of Philly in 1999, and my family did the same in 2000. We moved close to each other, but not in the same school districts. Kinda funny how that worked out. JM still lives in Philly. He's the only one who never moved out. We always sleep over eachother's houses. Most of the time it's just two of us, but every now and then all three of us will go to someone's house and we do the same shit we've been doing for a long fucking time.

Well, I just totally went off course with my nostalgic rambling.

I will following in SY's footsteps and go on a nostalgic ramble as well, since that was a good read.

I still keep in touch with a lot of my high school friends as well. This is mostly because there are so few of them that the ones that I do have are close friends.

TINS is definitely my oldest friend. I've known him since third grade, and we became friends in fourth grade. This was back in the time when all the kids played Pokemon at lunch time. Our school was a piece of smoldering shit, and it couldn't afford a cafeteria, which meant that we all ate brown bag lunches in the classroom. One day, this guy walks up to my desk at lunch where I'm sitting alone and not saying a damn word to anyone. He asks me if I want to sit with him and eat. I can't remember what the hell we talked about, but we laughed like hell and then ate together for the rest of the year. That guy was TINS, and that was close to ten years ago. We went to different high schools and now go to different colleges, but we don't live too far from each other, so we're over each others houses at least three times a month.

Aside from TINS, there's SquirrelsTwitch, who joined YCP but is barely on there. I've been through more shit with him than I care to recall most of the time. I've known him well for about five or six years now, though I've known him in passing for longer. How much longer, I have no idea, a few years more perhaps.

There are a few others who don't come on the forums at all, so you wouldn't know them. Most prominently are the rest of the writers I know apart from Squirrel and another friend from high school I visit at her college every once in a while.

All together, I can count my real close friends on one hand. I think that's a fine number for me. I don't really want any more. For one reason or another, I don't associate closely with anyone in my college, mostly because I don't like the people here. It's like the only thing I have in common with them is that we all breathe and go to the same school.

Yeah.