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Here's a secret: we all did. But ask yourself this. Think back in time to those dreadful experiences and remember the people who didn't _appear_ to dread the
by tmuir 8y ago
Here's a secret: we all did.
But ask yourself this. Think back in time to those dreadful experiences and remember the people who didn't _appear_ to dread the experience.
Those people dreaded walking naked amongst their 14 year old peers as well, they just did a better job at convincing you that they dreaded it less than you.
You could even say that those were the victors who wrote your history.
- anigbrowl 8y agoUm, no. Other than some awkward jokes on the first few occasions, it was fine. Possibly this is because the school I went to was pretty new and didn't have any kind of established social hierarchy or bullying culture - it existed, but more as personal animosity.
- tmuir 8y agoI just laid out the derivative of your behavior, and then you said "thats ridiculous, we quickly adapted over a short amount of time". So, if I hear you correctly, what your saying is that as your understanding over time, lets call this du/dt, has a positive rate of change? You're probably right though, the biggest trick Copernicus ever pulled was convincing everyone of heliocentricity by employing mathematics. We've been under the illusion ever since.
- Spooky23 8y ago14 year old me made many decisions that don't seem particularly rational from the perspective of 14+<20-something> me. People have different perspectives on these sorts of things.
- learc83 8y agoExcactly. When I was about 4, paper cuts were the worst thing I could imagine. Now they are trivial. It doesn't mean that 4 year old me was stupid because I thought they hurt so bad, it just means that I've experienced things that hurt much worse.