cosmicbartender

I'm starting to wonder if I'm abnormal... if there really is something medically different about me than the rest of the people I know.

I seem to be the only member of my peer group who can keep his mind in his brain and not his pants. A pretty girl does not cause me to abandon my sense of reason, drinking to excess is not my idea of a great Saturday night, and I value doing what's right before doing what I'd prefer.

I've spent the bulk of my formative years reading books on samurai culture and Buddhism and Taoism, etc. The problem with subscribing to the values of a dead culture (I'm speaking of the samurai now) is that it's very difficult to find people with whom to commiserate.

I just re-read that last sentence: "With whom to commiserate". ...Who speaks like that?? Well, I do! And again, I seem to be the only one.

Am I old before my time? Is mine a set of values that has no place anymore? Or have I simply not found my niche yet? If so, where would I go to look?

I'm getting awfully tired of feeling like I'm the only one who thinks the way I do.