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Edited on Fri Nov-05-04 12:46 AM by grace0418
I had finally identified my feelings about the election and started writing this last night. Many of you were so kind to respond, so I apologize if I seem to be recycling a bit. I rewrote it today and just wanted to share with those that might be interested:
I don't know about you all, but high school was a nightmare for me. I was a lower-middle-class kid living in a rich town, and I was that fatal combination of smart, awkward and not "fashionably" dressed (partially because I couldn't afford it, partially because I was a punk-rock girl and didn't want to look like everyone else). I was constantly horrified by how awful many of the popular people were in my high school. They were mean and self-centered, they ridiculed and excluded anyone who didn't look/act/think exactly like them, and they were incredibly, shockingly ignorant. Yet THEY were the popular ones. They always had lots of friends around them and went to all the dances and parties.
Needless to say I couldn't wait to go to college, where I met so many amazing people and made many lifelong friends, including my husband. Sure the popular kids were there too, but they didn't have any power over the rest of us anymore. We saw them for what they were: smug, scared, shallow, sad, immature, starving for attention, self-absorbed and spoiled. Some of them matured and became really cool people, and some remain mired in their ignorance to this day.
Well, I just realized that the last four years have been like being in high school. Except now the ignorant, mean, selfish popular kids are running the country instead of the school and, instead of making the dorks miserable, they're making our entire planet miserable. Instead of spreading rumors and shoving freshmen in the halls, they're spreading horrible lies through the media and killing innocent people by the thousand.
And yesterday? Yesterday was like walking into my high school graduation ceremony only to find out that I have repeat the last four long, horrible years all over again.
So today I decided that I will stand up for the dorks, the band-geeks, the honor students, the wallflowers, the chess club, the drama club, the artists, the loners, the stoners, the outcasts, the underdogs, the weaklings, the chubby kids, the too-short guys, the too-tall girls, the kid with head-gear, the kid with the stutter, the kid in the wheelchair. It's time to take back the school. Whatever it takes, revenge of the nerds will prevail. And it MUST prevail soon. For me it starts today.
Who's with me?
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