#manfersask

OMG I'M ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE FOLLOWERS??? <3

Okay. Okay. I can do this. Let's see here...

I think I'm a really nice person. I try to be really good to everyone and do good things and be a good person. And I do a pretty good job, imo.

I'm not half bad looking. It took a little longer for the puberty magic to happen to me, but I've grown into myself a lot and I'm much more confident now because of it. :3

I'm really talented. Maybe I'm not as good as a lot of other people, but I'm a pretty good writer and a pretty good artist and what I do makes people happy! And that's super rad!

I think I have pretty fabulous taste in music.

I'm really good at coloring inside the lines in coloring books. <3

I'm pretty rad I guess. lol

LET ME WEAVE FOR YOU THE TALE OF HOW I ACQUIRED FRIENDS MY FIRST YEAR OF BIG KID SCHOOL.

So in the main building on campus (with all the food) there was the specific set of tables that was always, at all times of day, occupied by geeks/nerds/dorks/gamers/cosplyers/fandomers/etc. I wanted to get to know them, but I was very shy. 

I noticed most of them had 3DS’s so I started carrying mine everywhere to accumulate streetpasses. One day, I was sitting alone at a little table a short distance away from the “Knights of the Long Table” (as they were called because their tables were always shoved together into this really long chain of never-ending geekery) and I had my 3DS out checking my streetpasses. Well this guy and girl come barreling up to my table and lean in about 6 inches from my face and go “ARE YOU MANFERS???” So I said yes and they turned around to the table and yelled “GUYS WE FOUND MANFERS!!!” Turns out, they usually only ever streetpassed each other. So when “Manfers” streetpassed them they started trying to find out who it was. Apparently they’d been trying to find me for weeks! The whole table! Needless to say, they invited me over and I never left the table again.

THE POINT HERE IS, find people who are interested in things you like. If you’re shy, don’t be active about it. Wait and watch and listen. And when you find a group or a person who’s interested in the same things that you are, just ask to hang out or sit with them! College is REALLY cool in that it’s incredibly hard to find mean or hateful people. If you ask to sit with someone or join in the conversation, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who’d turn you down. And don’t be afraid to talk to people who don’t seem to have much in common with you.

In one of my art classes my second year, I met a guy who was all about science and computers and shit I didn’t understand (Physics Major / Art Minor) and he offered to help me with a project I was working on. At first I felt like we didn’t have anything in common, but the more I got to know him, the more I realized that while our interests aren’t very similar, our fundamental beliefs and desires for the future were extremely similar. It took me by complete surprise! (We’re dating now, hoo boy!)

So talk to lots of people! And don’t be afraid to go out on a limb and ask to hang out with people. College is a MUCH easier environment to make friends in than High School will EVER be.