So...the opposite of peer pressure?

~Zoo

Exactly!

Actually, kind of the same. Your sucess shows their failure.

Heh. Nice.

You have made some amazing changes, Roy. I'm happy for you.

Thanks Doc, Tex. It's been a real struggle getting here and it pisses me off when people try to put me down for it.

I think the ideal is to have no friends.

Oh we all still need friends!  The ideal is to kick those dumbasses to the curb and get better ones!LOL!  Hey Roy, you don't need those dumbasses, but then Ithink you know that already!  You keep up the good work!

But if youze ah always kicking dem to da' courb ta' get youze sum betta' ones, then are you not in a perpetual state of friendlessness, continually searching for better friends?

It is best to be yourself, to improve yourself, and to keep other people out of the picture... unless you can find people betta dan youze who will be your friend. But that violates the rules if everyone is playing the same game, right?

The friends I have are nothing but encouraging.  I suppose if I had more friends, there would probably be a few who would try and run whatever I'm doing down but I don't cultivate those sorts of friendships anymore.

This is an interestingly cynical way to look at it, but at the same time, I get exactly what you're saying.  Bloody hell, I'm becoming cynical too.  Noooooo...

Ain't that the truth? Fuck them! I don't give a shit about them. I like, Maso don't put up with friendships like that.

But at the same time should I expect anything different from them? When I was younger I was a big drinker and smoke pot almost daily and soon as I quit to get in better shape and I was playing basketball everyday my party friends gave me shit. Was it wrong of them? Or was wrong of me to expect something more?

 

 

I think maybe they just miss us UDig. At least I like to think that.

I vote wrong of them. Then again, I have never been very popular with my friends... I mean the people who could have potentially become them.

I have found that people obssess too much about looking cool or looking smart or not looking awkward or being better or being prettier or having a better girlfriend or having a better car or being able to afford that flasy new lawn mower to cut the weeds they just planted. It is really dull. I like to read textbooks.

America discriminates against intellectualism. I know. College admissions officers claim people who like school are not "well-rounded", and my peers call me an "oreo". But in the end, I feel better about who I am. I am someone. Maybe I have never been with a woman. And maybe being alone all the time makes me sad. But I would not change who I am just to fix that. I am satisfied with my life, even if people try to stop me from being happy.