Why We Should Love Being Geeks
by Seriously, do I even need to tell you?
Being a geek isn´t easy at times and no one will sooner admit it than geeks themselves. Yes, there is that period of awkwardness, where we desperately try to synthesize the “generally acceptable” lifestyle with our own. Yes, there is the fact that our interests seem at some point to hinder our chances of reproduction and yes, there is the occasional beating by the “cool guys”.
And yet, one day, presumably after the haunting nightmares of a geek-riddled puberty, we wake up and we realize that this is the life we want to live. We always have.
Even though everyone loves to think about themselves as the “different ones” and the “special ones”, it is natural to want to belong. Life is a search for our reference group. The thing is, we are so often told that the reference group means doing what “adults do”, “putting down that damn reading for children” and “getting a life” that we miss that we already have one. And it is a life well worth living.
The point is, there is no objective value to things. One way isn´t better than the other. Right is merely a direction, not an absolute. The disease eating away our world is the need to over-unify. What haunts us isn´t the things we need or crave, but the things we are supposed to need, forced to crave. The one crucial step is finally separating what you really want from what it is “normal”, what you are “expected” to want. As long as we value the fact we have seen the original Star Wars fifty times over, there is nothing wrong with our lives. How can there be? Just because some people think it´s a waste of time? Do YOU think it´s a waste of time? No? So screw them.
We may not be the kings of proms, but damn do we have our leather-bound Absolute Sandmans.
Yes, we´d fail at leading the lives of “regular” people, but are those the lives we want to lead? If you look back at your life and don´t like what you see, well, go and do something different. But if you finally free yourself from what others value true and weave your own truth, keep on rolling this way. And never let anyone tell you different.
Put on your “´85” Thundercats t-shirt, strap on the Naruto wristband and if it´s cold, grab a brown coat. Go out with your head held high and if the world around gets boring, just set your eyes upon Neverland. Or Fantastica. Or Middle-Earth. Or wherever you like. Most people only have one world to cling onto. Nowhere to go if it fails them. No way to still their pain, no place to hide. We have thousands of worlds at our command. Thousands of shelters. Thousands of homes.
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