Hey Brother.....not all the fingers on your hand look the same or work the same.....saying....we are all different and definitly not implying that the way you live is wrong or anything like that.....Let me tell you a little about myself.....I am a people person.....I have friends from all walks of life and very diverse in every possible way.....from very wealthy to not wealthy at all......from religous to non believers......and from many ethnic backgrounds.....I look at it like this brother.....you get one shot at this gig we call life....we all bleed RED.....and when its your time to go....you dont take SHIT with you....so why be a prick or a hater.....I fought for you and me to have the right to life, liberty and justice for all brother....so....I dont know you but Orithil...I like you....because thats what makes me, me.....
I think it's a cultural thing more than anything else, really. I'm Southern, I still hold onto things that most people around here have disregarded a long time ago, like the concepts of honesty, honor, and loyalty. I know I'm crazy and I'm fine with that, I know people don't get me and I'm fine with that...but I'm not like, how to say it?
I don't mind certain people, I even like certain people...but I feel like 90% of the population aren't worth the breath it takes to sustain their bodies.
I like going out, I like doing things...but I can't stand the general public. The people who I hear talking to the idiot standing next to them about what's so wrong with me, or the racist asshats I hear talking shit about how I married a mixed-race woman (they never use so polite a term, though). I thought I was leaving behind ignorance and hate when I left the South, but all I did was find a new class of fucking morons and to be quite honest, I just gave up.
My wife's been trying to convince me that there's people like me, and on this forum I've found many people who I believe would make awesome company, but I also don't really know any of you. I don't concern myself with keeping up appearances, I don't concern myself with watching what I say, I just am who and what I am, and I just don't really fit in with most people, so I do what makes the most sense - I stay away from them. I'm not going to change to fit in, too many times in my youth I caved to what others wanted or expected of me and I was miserable, now I remain true to who I am and yeah, it hasn't won me many friends, maybe I'm not the guy to have them, but when I do die, I won't look back and regret it, because I was honest, not just with myself but with the world, that I stood by the principals I believed in, and that I did not bow to pressure to be "normal".
Here, this bit by Henley I think explains my stand on the world as it is now.
"
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul."