My understanding of Geeks or Nerds is that we are mature enough to understand, care, relate to, and try to help the world we live in but at the same time we are able to step back and love what we have and enjoy our lives with simple joy, as children do. We crave knowledge, to be more intelligent than we currently are, but with that concept comes the fact that we are able to let our emotions take over.
As knowledge seekers, we know our news and politics, our facts and research our passions. But we like our other lives too. We have our books and art and comics and movies and music and video games and the internet to distract us because we know what we love and don’t deny ourselves the simple pleasure of having it. We are not children for wanting to be this hero who flies in and saves the day. We are not immature for falling in love with a characters story and wanting to relive their adventures with them.
We have a piece of us perpetually in Neverland, playing with the Lost Boys, but it’s a piece. The rest of us is in the real world where we make differences every day whether others notice or not.
Summary: Being a Geek or Nerd is not just by what you wear, it’s by who you are. Wanting knowledge but also knowing what you love and letting yourself have it are perfectly excellent qualities to posses.
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