Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Changes
Turns out it's tough having a productive brother. Mine has switched his blog onto Typepad, and now it looks super professional. Check it out; he's off to a really great start.
In today's post he talks about our parents, and how important they were to getting him through school without riddling it, himself, or his classmates with bullets. I'll second that. He and I weren't ever really loners in school, but we were certainly not a part of the in crowd. Not at all. I think most every kid has some kind of story about not fitting in, not being "cool" enough to do something the "cool" kids were doing. That's the tough part about it; when you're that young, and when you're trying so hard to see how you fit into something, it's easy to miss that the vast majority of people are not like the people you're trying to be like. The popular kids simply can't make up the majority of the student body. When you look at it that way, trying to fit into the "popular" crowd is really a blind effort toward excluding one's self.
This doesn't make sense to you when you're so affected by what you're body's doing it becomes a task to walk around without bumping your newly-large feet into everything. Thank God for parents who have done enough growing of their own to give us some perspective.
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