Obsessions with high school...

I'm not sure if you guys have seen Bowling for Columbine (which is a film that is generally good, but does have some really inexcusably dumb bits in it), but for me, the line that stuck out the most was when Moore interviewed Matt Stone from South Park. I couldn't find the exact quote but basically it was something to the effect of:

Someone needs to tell students that who you are in high school doesn't define who you are for the rest of your life.

I bring this up because it seems like there are quite a few people who are scarred by their high school experiences long after they leave high school. And I believe that that is just completely unnecessary. If you don't like who you are when you were in high school, then change it afterward. To most of the people reading this blog, this probably isn't advice you need, but I agree with Matt Stone that maybe if someone had sat those two Columbine kids down and told them that jocks won't be jocks forever, and after you leave high school, no one cares whether you were captain of the football team or whether you were a cheerleader or whether you were on the math team (like me!), then perhaps they wouldn't have let those bullying kids get them down. And perhaps they wouldn't have retaliated so violently or at all. Anyway, so more kids should just know that the particular social hierarchy that exists in high school doesn't follow you around in the real world. I think it would give kids a lot more self-confidence if they knew that.

Anyway, the reason I thought about this again today was because apparently Vin Diesel is a huge fan of the Dungeons & Dragons Role Playing Game (he was quite excitedly discussing it on Conan O' Brien), which means that at some point, someone must have thought he was a huge nerd. He even wrote the foreward for a book about Dungeons & Dragons . I may be a nerd, but even I make fun of those who play D&D. Not that I'd make fun of Vin. He could easily kick my ass from here to Tibet.

So for all the high school kiddies reading my blog, just know that if Vin Diesel could transform himself from undoubtedly huge nerd into a beefy $20 million-a-pic movie star, then you can too.