What age are you in Grades 1-8? Your profile says you're fourteen so I'm gonna take a gander and say that you haven't met any life-altering stages in your life just yet, which means you've got plenty of time left to redeem yourself and unleash your true potential. On top of that, having friends =/= being successful. Take it from me - I'm a genius. Not trying to show off; just stating facts. And sadly, I realised this as young as ten? But it only really set in when I hit secondary school (which was when I was around thirteen). I ended up alienating everyone which proceeded with everyone hating me, which proceeded with me becoming mentally unfit, which was followed by an addiction to escapism in the form of the Internet.
Actually, I've met many life-altering stages in my life this year. The one that really mattered the most was the fact that I started playing the piano this October, and in less than a year I'm working on Chopin's funeral march, which is usually done after the eighth year. I am not just a little good at the piano, my (very experienced) teacher has stated countless times that he has never seen a case like mine, pushed to this extent. My mathematics teacher has the same view. In her own words, "I've been teaching for 20 years, and Nick is the first student from which I do not demand homework. He is simply above it.". Another quote by that teacher: "Nick does not deserve a grade of 20/20 (Top grade in the Greek educational system). No grade system can value his true capabilities. 20/20 is a true understatement and insult, but unfortunately it is all I can give him."
Now I'm sixteen, last year I had a huge set of state exams and I did well in them. Maybe not my true potential but as well as I needed to do. I've redeemed myself; I go out nearly every night; I have a great group of friends I can count on and I regularly get the birds. Try it. I know a bunch of robots who've been getting straight A's since day one but they don't have any friends. It. Is. Not. Worth. It. Go out, have fun, you're fourteen and by default, you don't have a clue about a life. But you're a person and I've never talked to you before - go out, have fun, get friends. Study in your spare time but goddamn kid, stop the elitism. Nobody likes an elitist.
I have went out with friends countless times. It is not fun. Once I had to call my father to come and pick me up from bowling because those wackos wanted to go for a second one-hour run. Another time I had to play their game and lie about my age so they would let us see an M-rated horror movie, which trust me, was not enjoyable. I have socialized, and I do not like it.
Kids your age usually can't think for themselves. When I was you're age and I was correcting my teachers' grammar/mathematical mistakes, people laughed at me and groaned. Nobody likes someone who tries too hard.
Well, this does not happen in my case. When I correct a teacher, it is because they deserve it (being an ass to the students all the time). My classmates applaud me, but I couldn't care less really.
Rule one of life: learn to fight your own battles.
I went kickboxing for three years, I can fight for my life if someone tries to rob me on the street. However, I am in no mood for a stupid vendetta, and I am not going to get myself or my family into trouble because someone wants to be an idiot. I will help both myself and the society as a whole, by reporting illegal behavior to the police.
Hahahahaha oh my god you are such a pseudo-intellectual. Seriously, your greatest weakness is 'being human'??? Something you have NO CONTROL OVER, something that looks like you're begging someone to step in and say, 'no, you're a great guy,'... something that says you're a lot more insecure about yourself than you let on (it's obvious by your constant self-validation, however).
You have not been in my school, so I can understand your point of view to an extent. However, let me explain why being there makes me sick and ashamed of being a human: You simply cannot read a book at breaks. There is too much noise. Whenever I try to sit and read, there is going to be
-a group of people fighting
-a pair of showoffs making out
-some idiot singing some absurd song just to irritate everybody else.
That describes 80% of my classmates, which represents 80% of today's youth. Seriously, why the hell can't they do something more productive? They are a disgrace to the society. To quote a video on youtube which sums up my point of view, the world is full of uneducated morons, who think being stupid is the way to go.
Twenty-first century - woman who ticks all those boxes... nope. Also I dunno maybe you're serious but reserving intercourse until marriage (especially when said online) is usually a cop-out for just being socially awkward and if your posts in this thread are anything to go by...
I need no excuse to be "socially awkward", I feel no shame for it.
Hahahahahahahahaha oh man. My ego's a gimmick; yours makes me want to hit you in the face.
Your aggressiveness makes me question the truthfulness of your claims to be a genius. Serious debate should be done in a civil manner, and blatantly attacking the other person is not my definition of "civil". While I frown upon other people, I do not show it to them. While according to your own post you alienated everyone, I keep all my rage to myself and I even have conversations with idiots in a regular basis at school, pretending I care about their opinions just to be nice. By your own description, you were just a jerk.
And to post all of this in a thread in which the OP states 'It's pretty much guaranteed that you're going to make mistakes, and most of them when you're young. But sometimes, the mistakes you made back then can make you look back and say "WTF WAS I THINKING?!"' is nothing short of beautiful. Bravo.
Okay...?
Listen, I have a massive headache and usually I'd leave a disclaimer when posting stuff like this saying, 'maybe it's just put me in a bad mood,' but... nope. If you were in any way as intelligent and better than the average joe as you claim you are, you wouldn't write those things. But hey, welcome to 90% of PC, using the community as a route of escape into delusions. You're... probably not intelligent. Being smart =/= being intelligent. Being intelligent is someone who's clever; who can manage a social and academic life; who can post in a thread without making someone want to punch him in the face.
Yeah, no. You are just being a jerk now. It is obvious that you have not actually overcome your social problems like you claim to, as you fail to see the boundaries of what we actually can say in a conversation. Somebody should teach you about manners.
You're fourteen; you're either going to ignore me or reply with some ridiculous deflections and projections and I'm not going to concede to you on any matter. I don't know you. I've barely ever read your posts but please, for your sake, if not everyone else's, grow up. Do you think I posted this for a laugh? I genuinely feel bad for you because I was in your position; you look like a bitter kid who needs to be helped from going astray but TRUST ME, if you're met with a bunch of condescending replies after posting what could only be deciphered as self-validation/ego stroking, you're doing something wrong.
You are the one who needs to grow up. You cannot even have a mature conversation. You are so close-minded that your opinions are not going to change no matter what is presented to you, and you have a flawed view of the world where you are better than everybody else. I know and have accepted the fact that there might be someone better than me out there, but you seem to still have a problem with doing so. You immediately associate statements of superiority with idiocy and immaturity, failing to realize that that is exactly what you have just committed. You came here to make me feel like an idiot, having already predetermined that you have the maturity and intelligence needed to make such statements without sounding like an idiot yourself. It does not work that way, and please, for the sake of everybody else, be nicer in the future.
