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The Unwinding Cable Car

Patron Saint of Lost Causes

Created on 2004-07-19 17:33:15 (#3872377), last updated 2009-11-22

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Name:	Kevin
Birthdate:	04-13
Website:	Myspace

Bio

This is me. This is my life.

I’ve spent the past nineteen years of my life growing up in a middle-class neighborhood on the outskirts of a big city. My first nine years of formal education took me through a very tiny Catholic school that was situated in one of the city’s worst neighborhoods. I like to call this being “sheltered, but not really.” Even as I sat in a small classroom memorizing beliefs and ideals of the institution, it took but one look out the window to observe those who were exponentially less fortunate than I. I credit this, along with my static position at the bottom of the school’s social food chain, with endowing me great human empathy, even as a young child.

I’m fortunate in a lot of ways, really. Now that I’ve come full circle, this is more obvious than ever. I made a lot of amazing friends during high school and took advantage of many opportunities. After four years, I finally grew into my own skin and became more confident than ever in the person I was.

Sadly, this confidence was shattered less than three months later. I became severely depressed during my first year of college and devolved into a shell of my former self. It took a lot of self-prescribed therapy (I don’t believe in clinical psychiatry) to bring myself out of this state, but now I don’t regret a single decision I made. I feel that as a result of my experiences, I know myself better than I ever did before, and that’s helping my confidence to bloom and prosper once more.

I feel immensely grateful for all of my loved ones. My family has its closeted skeletons, but really, whose doesn’t? Maybe I’ll talk to you about it someday. I’m far from being an open book, but it takes very little to earn my trust.

I am an aesthete at heart, because I recognize beauty in everything from the mundane to the sublime. I value genuineness above all other qualities. If people strove to be the people they truly wished to become, I feel like the world would be a better place. I am also an artist, because I love nothing more than to create and express myself.

I won't ask you to like me. I won't even ask you to spare me a second glance. But if you do, I promise I'll make it worth your while.

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