Quote: (10-10-2015 12:56 PM)Quintus Curtius Wrote:
I'm just imagining this guy below going to the local library....
Ha, thanks man. More love back from me for your writing: I've gained useful life advice, deeper perspectives and mental strength from your work, and am honoured you share it with your readers.
Yeah, I know I don't look the sort, but Libraries were always awesome to me - even if they're full of short-haired lesbians and I have to turn sideways to fit between the stacks.
As a young kid, I knew a trip there meant no cops would be hassling you; no-one would try to rob what little money you had; no-one would try to peer pressure you into stealing something or breaking something or fighting someone; no-one would ask you to run 'a package' somewhere; and no-one older would try to get you alone and then ask if you 'think about girls yet'?
As such, when I was a young child and was physically-outmatched by violent oppressors, I realised I could use the library to learn how to mentally-outmatch them.
Now I'm older:
why not both?
As a bonus: a quiet child with a book is invisible, so no-one would care what you were reading as long as you were reading. Of course, I was drawn to the adult world - I find this Millennial Mindset of not wanting to race towards and embrace adulthood far before you're ready alien. Observation, threat assessment, the ability to blend into the background, influencing groupthink, female seduction - it was all there to be discovered.