Simon Pegg Gets It

Law #11: Don't be afraid to be who you are.  Life is too short to pretend to be someone you aren't.

 I ran across this image on Google+ (don't ask) and I knew right away I should make a law about it.  If you're here then you're most likely familiar with my other blog: The Renegade Geek.  Believe it or not (I know some of you are too young to rem...oh never mind), there was a time when geek and nerd culture were ridiculed and considered outcasts.  Well yours truly was always a geek.  I'll let you draw your own images of what that was like for me.  However, I was always me and I don't regret that.  Since I spent so much time on the outside looking in, I was a keen observer.  I noticed that people tended to put on a mask to fit in and hid their interests and talents if they felt it would threaten their acceptance.  You're probably looking back on your younger years right now thinking about that one thing you loved but you knew it would brand you if you were ever caught practicing it.  And now you're probably thinking about how much time you wasted doing so when you could have been doing THAT.

Simon's right.  Being a geek IS extremely liberating.  It's about saying "Hey world, this is me and I don't really care what you think about that.".  In that respect, we can all be geeks.