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There’s this pretentious, self-righteous kid who posted on the UCLA LJ community a few days asking for people’s journals. I really don’t think this is the right way to approach the situation. The general consensus was that it was a creepy request. The kid responds to my post about his creepy profile saying, “I take it you’re a perfect human being?” I laughed and also died a little inside…

Mainly because of his LJ post that followed the whole ordeal. He calls us, the people who responded, a bunch of self-absorbed, immature, shallow as a pool of piss, brainwashed conformists. Whoa, whoa there. Where did this reaction come from? Talk about overreacting. I’m willing to bet he’s a pariah, an outcast throughout all of school, who ironically claims that he’s somehow superior and more open-minded than everyone at UCLA. I don’t entirely blame him. I remember being a naive kid in college who thought my worldviews were the only right ones and that I was somehow better than a lot of other people. And I find that people who for some reason feel wronged by their peers, whether or not they’re right, seem to subscribe to this view.

One thing’s for certain: He apparently hasn’t yet gone through the humbling experience that ookla has to offer.

I’m not really offended or angry, but I do have half a mind to post an extremely snarky response to his personal LJ post. And in fact, I hope he reads this entry, so he knows that while he can put on snooty and self-righteous airs in front of his friends, he’s really just another insignificant teen who has yet to undergo life’s true rigors. He believes we’re trying to censor him, when all we would like is a little tact.

And we, the alums, are the sad ones who represent the dregs of society huh. Try being productive, not whiny. You’ll never expand your mind if you wallow in self-pity instead of being open to others. Learn it now, or learn it a much harder way later.