-- Posted by mnight at 1:23 am on Feb. 16, 2008 At least, that's what it seems like, but this is really how I feel, and I can't help it. There are VERY FEW people in my class, let alone my school, who I can look at as equal to myself. Being closet-gay in a 130-enrollment school, 2000-population town, I've gone through so many inner battles to get to know myself and understand the world. Same old story. So when I look at so many people who only think what their parents and our isolated society have told them to think, I feel superior to them.  Not in an arrogant way, but just in the fact that I feel bad for them, because they don't see the world for what it is. I don't know... it's really tough to put into words. Is anyone with me? -- Posted by ALucidThought at 1:27 am on Feb. 16, 2008 Yes. I am with you, and unfortunately, most people are shaped by outside influence and blindly obey. Like with institutionalized religion (aka cults). -- Posted by ForeignFishes at 8:14 am on Feb. 17, 2008 I see where you're coming from. I pity the people I know who have no sense of self, who have no idea why they do the things they do.  I do shit I don't approve of, but at least I know why I do them and am introspective enough to find some kind of reasoning. I don't think the majority of kids at my school give any thought to who they are. -- Posted by medjai at 8:47 am on Feb. 17, 2008 It's ironic because you think that you see the world for what it is based on comparisons of yourself vs your rather isolated society.