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How "normal" do you think you are?
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I get told a lot that I am weird or things I do/don't enjoy doing are not "normal". Then again, I have absolutely no desire to be "normal" because I find normal exceedingly boring. I like quirks. Also, I don't really get the whole idea about wanting to be different. I think the "wanting to be like everyone else" thing confuses me more than why people don't like weirdness.
But overall, I consider myself sane and sometimes I feel I'm more sane than other people. I still picked fringe, though, because what I find to be weird are what most people seem to do/believe/say.
mooface:
i put that i'm "on the fringe" but i'm not sure if i'm actually that weird. i mean, i am pretty different from most people i know and it can be pretty frustrating at times. a few things that jump to my mind are:
- i would rather go on a picnic than go drinking.
- most of the girls i know are really, really fucking stupid with guys. i could never imagine making the mistakes that they make.
- i think people place too much emphasis on whether they are "straight" or "gay"
- i have internet friends
although these things make me really different from the people around me i don't know if they qualify me as "abnormal". for one thing, i am sure there are plenty of people who think like me, or who are similar to me, but i just don't know them. and for another thing, i think that everyone has weird quirks about them that makes them different to everyone else - it's just that these quirks differ from person to person.
for example, although i am probably by far the weirdest of my roommates (i look weirder and i am the nerdiest one) i am definitely the sanest. i am odd in the sense that i have an almost non-existent social life when i'm in italy because i hate just about everything my that peers enjoy, but i overall am a happy person - i accept what my circumstances are and i work around them. my roommates appear to be much more normal and well-adjusted than i am - they go clubbing and would never dye their hair purple. but one has weird hygiene issues and has regular mental breakdowns, another can't handle any aspect of her life - whether it's school, work or friendships - because she has no concept of consequences, and the third roommate is a bit delusional in general, and manages to make every wrong decision possible when it concerns romantic relationships - almost as if she is willfully trying to work against reason and rational thinking. i would much rather have my eccentricities than theirs!
Dimmukane:
If by norm you mean typical college male in Maryland, then I'm somewhat off-base. Around here the norm is that of a typical fraternity brother, minus the obnoxiousness. Get drunk on the weekends, hopefully hook up with an equally drunk college female, go to most of your classes. Probably a communications major. Enjoys any movies involving the Frat Pack, Family Guy, Simpsons, bad sitcoms. Doesn't read much, listens to Jack Johnson and Muse, and Lil' Wayne. Hopes to have an office job someday, get married and have a kid or two, probably wants to stay in Maryland.
I don't like drinking much. While I'm interested in girls, I've never made it a priority to hook up with any. Mostly this is due to any of them who show interest being crazy, but also my tendency to think things through too far ahead. I tend to not like most of the movies everyone else in my area does (I was actually quite upset that I got outvoted to watch Wanted instead of Wall-E). Same goes for television. I typically watch four kinds of things: mindless stuff (Cops, America's Funniest Videos), History/Discovery channel programs, The Daily Show, and Adult Swim cartoons/Simpsons. I don't make a point of watching every episode, either.
I am majoring in a degree that boils down to video game design (the actual title is longer). I want to someday work for a well-respected developer, move to Canada, go to conventions all over the world. Getting married, at least right now, doesn't have to be part of the equation. I also have ambitions of being a screenwriter/director/actor/musician, but haven't had any real schooling in these areas. I plan on at least trying to write a movie, co-direct, and act in it; and maybe release an album or something (not necessarily for profit). I hope I get a chance to work on something I can consider my magnum opus, to at least be a footnote in human history.
I'm also typically far more patient than most people in my area. I tend to live life on a daily basis, rather than have a plan for everything. I think it keeps me from getting upset if something goes wrong, and is also less structured and therefore more interesting. Dying is also not a concern of mine. The way I see things, I will be reincarnated. Not with any memory of previous lives or ideals, or connected to my original mind in anyway, but as a new person, who will get to see and hear and feel things that I haven't.
As I'm still not entirely sure what you mean, I'll leave it at that.
Papersatan:
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--- Quote from: Papersatan on 02 Jul 2008, 23:16 ---I don't believe in time. No, seriously.
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Pardon me, but what the hell do you mean?
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Certainly the earth continues to turn with out us having a way to mark it. The sun rises every day and I am getting older. It's not that I refuse to admit that, it's just our system of dividing it is arbitrary and I feel like the people around me don't understand that. In the beginning the words we used to describe time were just tools to make talking about something so abstract possible. Winter, summer, year, day, thats fine. I don;t want to plat all my crops on the first warm day in February because I didn't know it wasn't spring yet. I might have some issue with 'Fridays' being more valuable than 'Mondays', but I fell like people don't let that rule their lives as much, particularly since as a world we still use more than one system to divide the year. What really irks me is clocks not calendars. It used to be noon when the sun was highest in the sky. That's useful to have a name for, and then from that we divide the day into units. But we didn't all use to have clocks so it was an approximation, and so I figure people probably didn't let the arbitrary numbers rule their lives. Then the railroads came and it was decided that we needed the time zone things because it was ridiculous to have it be a hundred different times in one state, it's more useful if we have less times to worry about. Then we decided that we needed daylight savings time. And then in the first half of last century they changed the definition of a second. While it still used to be based on the revolution of the earth around the sun, now it based on the decay of an isotope. The thing is, all of this would be ok, if people still treated it like a useful tool, but people run their lives around it. Now we all have precise clocks and we all use them to gauge our lives. "Oh god, I'm so lazy, I slept until 11:00" "Oh it's 6:00 I have to go eat dinner." ("My God, it's not even noon, you can't have a margarita..." :) ) People get so stressed out about it, and its all fake, I mean it is only 11:38:53 because Congress decided it was and if I am hungry I will eat, and if I am tired I will go back to bed. Certainly I'm not suggesting that we should do everything when ever we want. I mean I have to go to work and it is not useful if I show up 12 hours late, or early. If I want to benefit from my classes I need to be there when they start. But people check their clocks constantly and they let them run their lives. In class people start packing their books 5 minutes before class ends, because they are less concerned with learning, than with leaving the room at 1:50 when the class is over. But on the other hand some professors will lock the door at 2:00:01 so maybe some of them have a reason to panic and race to the next class. People get mad when someone is 5 minutes late meeting them. It just all seems stupid to me. It doesn't help people it makes them more stressed out.
I liken it to someone believing that there is a God, because that can be a useful way to try and make sense of the big abstract concepts in the world. But then compare that with someone who lets their religion rule their life (which some would argue is what a religion should do). It seems silly to someone on the outside that people don't eat meat and milk in the same meal, or won't eat pork, or wouldn't get married on a certain day because it is not an auspicious day according to the charts or would torture and kill people for not following the same arbitrary rules.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote ---- interpreting things differently to those around you
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In this way I am abnormal. I interpret things on a level that is more basic than others, or rather I see through unneeded information and simplify things for myself, so I can hit the crux of the concept being put before me. Other people are more easily distracted by extraneous data.
--- Quote ---- having different priorities to other people your age/gender
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Definitely. Truth over security and freedom over safety, both in emotional and psychological ways. I like to believe that I lie to myself less than others do and see the flaws in our perception of "freedom". It's all very pretentious and long-winded. Long explanation made short, I think I've reconciled with my own flaws and the flaws in my viewpoints far earlier and more effectively than most of my age group.
This means my major priority is to become a person I'm happy with, who I think deserves the love of others.
--- Quote ---- how 'well-adjusted' you are
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I dip into and out of depression monthly or fortnightly. It's not clinical, but I doubt it's normal to feel the way I often do. On the other hand, I am quite in control of my emotions.
--- Quote ---- how you compare to your friends
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Really general. I'm the most intelligent, but physically weakest of them. If my friends and I were in D&D, I would be the Sorceror or Wizard. With a few levels of Bard.
I am completely aware that the above makes me sound like a douchebag of the highest degree, but honestly I can't see the point in lying about my viewpoint when it comes to my own behaviours and thought processes.
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