high school

The Non Comformist

That’s the awesome thing about toddlers. They don’t conform to anything, ever. And not in the Emo way of we’re all so different unique flowers but mysteriously we all look exactly the same. In the genuine, I have no concept of societal norms and will do what interests me and makes me giggle. I was [...]

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Banality of Cliques

Reading this post at Three Ring Circus today I could relate. I never made friends easily, in part because we moved around a lot and at school, everyone seemed to have known one another since Kindergarten. It was hard to break into cliques. Especially as a naturally shy person. One time I did push past [...]

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Functional Illiterate

I’ve been concerned about the local schooling options since we moved to the Central Coast. And I realise this post might come off as snobbish. I don’t care. Some things I should embrace a certain level of elitism in. Education is one of them. When we moved here, I couldn’t drive. So, I caught a [...]

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If You Want to be Happy, be Average

I read somewhere (sorry, can’t remember where – you may blame my mushy brain) that people don’t do well with extremes and the less they exist on the fringes, the happier they are likely to be. People who are considered to be extremely beautiful, or extremely smart or just plain different aren’t happy apparently. Or, [...]

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