I had a moment of enlightenment the other night. I'll tell you the context: Jeff and I had gone to this hole in the wall little card shop called Ancient Wonders in Tualatin to play magic with a few friends. After several group games we decided that we would go up the street to Applebees to get some food. We ended up staying there for several hours with a bunch of people we'd never really met. There was one other girl there. Of the 10 of us 4 of the guys (including my husband of course) were coloring on the children's menu.
Yet in the midst of this I realized that I really liked these people. They were all very smart, quick witted and happened to enjoy a lot of the same things that I do. We were talking about sci-fi books, anime, magic of course, life experience etc. It amazed me that people who the world would look at and totally discount as having anything valuable to add are some of the most interesting people to spend time with. I never really had included myself in this group of "nerds" before, but I'll be damn sure that I'd rather spend time with them than arrogant people who refuse to see beyond the superficial. I had a really good time, and left really happy.
I would like to officially announce that I am thrilled to be a slightly weird, nerdy person who loves anime, sci-fi, magic the gathering, and video games! Bring it on.
P.S. I'll post some pictures the next time I go to the shop.
2 comments:
Oh, you're totally a nerd. But that just makes you that much cooler than actual nerds, because you have awesome social skills and grooming abilities, unlike most of us.
Yes, you and Jeff are definitely both nerds. That's why we love you! And I fully support the embracing of nerd-dom!
I wish we could start some kind of support group for nerdy kids, so they wouldn't have to feel as weird as we did, and wouldn't have to wait until they're grown up to figure out how cool it is to be a nerd.
I can see, though, after reading your blog, that there are definitely different kinds of nerds. I am librarian nerd and proud of it. But I know I wouldn't fit in with the Ancient Wonders crowd because I'm not that into SciFi and Magic and stuff. So we should develop some different categories of nerd-dom.
Also, be sure to google the word nerdfighters. I love those guys. :) "We're Nerdfighters. We fight against suck....we fight for awesome. We fight using our brains, our hearts, our calculators and our trombones."
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