Journal #6: Celebrate Your Nerdiness

Over my seventeen years, I have come to realize that I have some qualities of something many people would call a nerd.  Though, at this point, this "nerdiness" is normal to me.  It is normal for me to have eight watches, normal to spend a half hour every day trying to assemble the right parts for building a desktop PC, normal to wear Galaga and Star Wars shirts.  In fact, I am known to frequently "nerd-out"; when I know a great deal about a topic, I have the tendency to just spew all of it, whether or not anyone is actually listening.  One of my proudest nerdy moments was when I proved to a friend that Han Solo did actually shoot first (in the original releases of the film Star Wars Episode IV, Greedo didn't shoot at all.  When they remastered the films in the '90s, George Lucas added in Greedo shooting first and missing so as to not affect Han's moral character.  But I digress.) If i've learned one lesson about nerdiness, it's to be proud of it.  Every so often I'll wear two to five watches, just because I can.  One of my goals before I go off to college is to be able to have "Superhero Week", in which for five or seven days I wear superhero shirts.  As of right now, I only have Batman and The Green Lantern, but I'm working on it.  Celebrating nerdiness is something that at first seems daunting, or seems like it could ruin one's social image.  Since I have embraced it, though, I have no regrets.