My Social Transformation

[storyteller]

My Social Transformation

In the early grades, I wasn't quite popular with the girls. I was dubbed as "the nerd", the one who brings home that golden "A" every day. I made friends with people just like me; and I was content. "Who needs girls," I thought to myself. As I slowly grew, mentally as well as physically, my thoughts began to change. My friends who I've been with for years seemed... boring? I grew annoyed of the way they talked, how they discussed mudane topics such as politics. I also came to see girls in a new light. "Wow!", I thought, "since when did she get so pretty?" I was content with my social life for a while, but hitherto grew unsatisfied with what I had. I didn't enjoy the presence of my friends anymore, and longed to be noticed a girl, any girl. I grew desperate.
7th grade came and gone and I soon found myself in the midst of new faces. These faces weren't so familiar, but I've definitely seen them before. "Hey! Whats up!" I quickly turned around and was caught by surprise as I was thinking quite hard by myself. "I haven't seen you much in this school, are you new? I'm Kevin." I've been in this school for 5 years and I was thought to be new. How embarassing! "Umm... I've been here since 3rd grade. I'm Dan", I replied. "Can I see your schedule?" Kevin said. It turned out we were in every single class together. He seemed like a friendly guy and a potential friend. I've seen him many times in those big crowds of people chatting away with endless vigor. I always thought those kind of people were very excluding, and thought of people like me as a lower kind. I got to know Kevin more and more, and I slowly lost touch with my old friends. I felt guilt for what I had done. I had known my friends for years and now I left them. The door Kevin had opened to me though, was irrisitable. I could smell the promises of social acceptance just by being his friend. Every day, I got introduced to someone new. Andrew, David, Sam, Brian, I became friends with them all.
Girls- well, that's a whole different story. I really never was good with girls. I could hardly look at them in the face and talk straight. How people like Kevin talked to girls so easily, with such confidence, I did not know. Did it come naturally? Were people destined to be successful with girls? As I got introduced to more and more girls I've been afraid to confront for years, I got to know them better and won over my lack of confidence. I look back at myself and wonder how it was so difficult to talk to girls. As quick as a summer storm, I suddenly was sucked into a whole new group of friends and school life. You may think my grades suffered from my new choice of friends, but they remained pretty consistent due to my parents constant push for good grades. I was satisfied.
Eight grade zoomed right past and I enjoyed every second of it. In High School, things were about to get better. Even though I gained the confidence I needed to talk to girls, I was never in the spotlight and always in the background. While everyone else got girlsfriends and boyfriends, I was the lone person without one. Surprisingly, I started to receive lots of attention in High School. Girls started to come to ME, instead of me coming to them. I suddenly got much more friend requests from girls on myspace. My old "top friends" list changed from all boys to a majority of girls. After a while, I gained even more confidence, and I started to ask girls out. Luckily, the first one I asked said yes. I was elated! This was what I had wanted since Middle School, but couldn't get without my newly gained confidence. Now, making friends and getting to know girls are no problem. When I look back at my miraculous change of social life, I feel that I have made sacrifices that were worth it. I gained friends I could trust with all my heart and who gave me a chance to gain what I wanted. The transformation from "nerd" to "cool" was really quite a ride.


I'm still in High School so this story definitely continues! This is a real life account. You may think I'm an asshole or whatever and shallow. You also may think that my friends aren't real "friends", but they are. Even though I've known them for only 2 years, we've grown so close so fast. That is what surprised me the most, how fast we've bonded. We sometimes spend a night at the others' house, our families go on vacation together, and we hang out every week- in a group or individualy. Girls that I've never known in my life became my girlfriend in like a week. The speed really surprised me the most.

If you think I'm showing off, whatever. This is just a personal story about my social life in school and how I transformed from a nerdy kid. If you think I'm a loser, whatever. If you think "PEOPLE WHO PLAY GUNZ CANT HAVE SOCIAL LIFE LAWLZ" you are wrong about that though. You CAN. You just have to make the effort. This story is a peek into my mind during this transformation and I hope you enjoy the ride

EDIT: This took 15 minutes total so it might not be as good.

[Ailysa]

Nice name. No wonder the chicks are after you.

[_Zephyre_]

If it's a real life account, then it hardly counts as fan fiction.

[Nosedagger]

Originally Posted by _Zephyre_

If it's a real life account, then it hardly counts as fan fiction.

Honestly, as long as it's a good story, I wouldn't care.

Assuming it's a good story, because I'm not interested enough to read this one.

[Wixern]

Originally Posted by Ze-Fire

If it's a real life account, then it hardly counts as fan fiction.

Then again, it's not like any of my stories weren't influenced by my personal life. Besides, Sigh writes short stories like this all the time, though be it more descriptive.

Anyway, not bad for fifteen minutes of work. I read it until the end, at least. It's always interesting to hear about someone else's life (as long as it's short )

I'll probably need to get back to writing soon, as well. Valentine's day is coming up soon, and I want to have it up and finished by then.

[Senvae]

If you think "PEOPLE WHO PLAY GUNZ CANT HAVE SOCIAL LIFE LAWLZ" you are wrong about that though.

I play GunZ and I have a social life. I also work full time, have a girlfriend, write a novel, make AMV videos, play other video games, go out drinking, work part time as a radio commercial voice actor... see it is very possible.

Btw, nice text, vocabulary wasn't half bad.

[Sarcor]

Originally Posted by Nosedigger

Honestly, as long as it's a good story, I wouldn't care.

Assuming it's a good story, because I'm not interested enough to read this one.

Hey Nosey, you got Promoted! Hooray!!!

Ontopic: good portrayal of an outlook on life.
But i hardly think that people that play gunz can't have a personal life.
Seriously.

[GreyFoX]

Pfft, play WoW, then say something about your social life