Episode 10: Why Even Daniel has the Right Idea
I've come to realize that pretty much all attention is good. Even bad attention if you do it right. Look at Daniel, he's probably better known in his grade then you were Andrew/Dan/J9. Daniel has the possibility now of becoming great and having an awesome senior year. Because, its a mix of attention and reputation, and it's extremely difficult to have a good reputation among everyone if of people don't know who you are.
It's actually kinda surprising how this works. Lets take a look at both Daniel and myself. I attracted a lot of negitive attention coming into high school; the stalker thing, the LiveJournal thing, all bad. Daniel is a creeper, and has a reputation for asking anyone and anything out; also bad. That put me in the spotlight. Then as I got into 11th grade, people realized the accusations were false and realized that I was actually a funny guy. Daniel on the other hand, while his accusations are true, has chilled out on it quite a bit. Now that I had attention and reputation: I gained loads of friends, discovered new activities such as being in Drama, had to chill with many separate friend groups, and got the "Senior of the Year award"(1 of 3 major awards given out) at the choir banquet in which everyone thought it was well deserved. Now that Daniel is in the spotlight and has been boosting his reputation, I decided to check what Daniel has been up to these days. He now actually hangs out with some cool people, and a chick(that I was sort of friends with through Maggie) from the class of 09' actually has her profile picture of her smiling sitting on his lap! And this chick is pretty hot! You don’t even really see it comeing.
So I'm not trying to brag at all here or discredit anyone for not doing this - as much as it seems. I'm just saying that if you get your name out there you have a greater possibility of having an awesome life. Even though Daniel is having a shitty one, he is demonstrating the possibility to turn that around and it wouldn't surprise me if he had an amazing senior year like I did and didn't want to leave high school. Having good attention works just as well if not better, I'm just saying that the more attention you court, the higher possibility you have of making your life great.
~Andy
"It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation."
-Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
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3 comments:
Mmmm... I know what you're getting at... but Daniel + Cool = Not Gonna Happen.
true, you know he's been trying to make him look better than me by telling people I'm failing life, by dropping out, and not working at target anymore.
but I still go to school, and in fact, I still have a steady job at target.
Hahaha well will see. But your probably right. And I know how that is Andrew, If you think about it, I used to use my brother to make myself look better all the time too. And you can't pretend that you haven't done the same with Daniel!
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