if it doesn't fit the mold of what they think you should like, it's cringe.
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Getting laughed at for something that you love, you feel passion for, you would literally spend hours of your own life pursuing or learning about is one of the worst feelings in the world. You have something that you feel makes you unique. You have an interest, whether that's an airplane, whether that's a certain car, whether that's a certain kind of animation. It doesn't matter.
Sadly, people who don't have passions, who don't understand the same passion that you have, will call you cringe. If it doesn't fit the mold of what they think you should like, it's cringe. Oh, you like to draw horses? Mad cringe. Oh, you still play Minecraft at 23? Mad cringe. Be more cringe, man. Here's why. Everyone that's cringe when they're younger learns who they actually are. Why?
Because when you stick by what you love and your passions, a couple things happen. First, you feel secure in who you are because you know, and this is kind of a truth of life, not everyone's going to like you. You'll be doing your own thing and someone will look at you and just decide they don't like you. And guess what? It's out of your control.
If someone doesn't like you, they won't like you unless they decide to change. Right? But also by being yourself and being cringe, you're going to meet other people who are cringe and who see you for who you are, not for an archetype that you're trying to play. This is another problem I'm seeing across the board, and maybe some of you have kind of witnessed this.
There are like internet subgroups, the Gym Bro, the Pick Me Girl, whatever, People are buying into archetypes to fit in. It's not anything new. I mean, this has been happening for centuries because it gives you an identity, right? Like, if you can just be the gym bro that's tatted and listens to Deftones while he deadlifts, then why would you need to, like, do, I don't know, a speech class?
Why would you need to go out and try to do ceramics? You don't because you already have the identity. Because I guess being a gym bro is not cringe. And it takes all the fun away from being who you truly are. Be more cringe. Be more cringe. Do that thing that you're afraid of trying. For me, I've always wanted to do a glassworks class. You know those glass windows that are beautifully created?
Stained glass. But I knew it's kind of not... We can do everything that comes. Das Handwerk.
But I was like, screw it. I'm going to do it anyways. I don't care. And I went and did it. And it was awesome. And I met so many cool people by doing it because I was like, screw it. I don't care. I don't care what someone's going to say about me. I can't control that. So let me just go out and do it. Maybe there's like a manga you want to read. I don't know.
And you're like, oh, that's kind of weird.
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