screw hollywood:be your own hero!

at home, i'm pretty much the same as everyone that's around me. i don't stand out that much in our group, but our group as a whole tends to stand out in our little town. i always knew that we were a little weird, and out of the ordinary. but it was accepted there, and everyone knew that we were weird.but here at school, it's something completely different. i'm alone in my weirdness, and i stand out alone. there is no one like me at school, no one weird enough to stand out beside me. but i'm comfortable with that. i don't always have to be surrounded by other weird kids. i have become accepted, and almost praised at my school, by my friends because of my eccentric-ness. they don't understand it. i try to show them that they don't need to worry about what everyone else thinks of them, or if what they are doing is right and cool or not. i am so much happier not worrying about what everyone else thinks. i've begun living my life for me, and not them.friends at school who have seen the winking circle movie think that we are the craziest bunch of kids they have ever seen. and they're probably right. we are pretty crazy. we do crazy things for crazy reasons, and i don't even know if we completely understand why we would do it.who in their right mind would willingly cut up thousands of pop cans just to make some decorations? and collect hundreds of bags of leaves so they can jump of the roofs of buildings? who would dress up in their fanciest clothes to go to pizza hut? not 'normal' people. the thing that i love the most is the shock on people's faces when they learn that we do all this crazy stuff under the influence of fun, and fun alone. no drugs, no alcohol. society doesn't understand us. we are so far from norm, they don't know how to handle us. cops try to infiltrate when we're riding our bikes, or nailing paintings to a pole. we're not vandalizing our town. if anything, we're making it a more beautiful place to live. but they've never seen anything like this before. the adults and popos in our town have recieved no official training in these matters before, and don't know how to handle us. and i love it. we aren't doing anything wrong, yet how come we still get into trouble. even at the high school, the administration always have it in for us. what harm are we doing though? go and bust the kids smoking all over your property, and doing drugs in the bathrooms. all i want to do is eat my sandwich in a quiet hall while i'm doing my homework. and you make us clean the cafeteria because we're eating in the halls??. we would probably be the most respectful and helpful students you've ever met, but when we watch flyers go up about everything under the sun, but our flyers aren't allowed to go up becuase there's a tiny logo of a winking face on it, solely becuase you don't agree with whatever it is that we're doing. so we brought a couple cameras into the school. why aren't we allowed to film? what harm are we doing? what is it that you're trying to hide? all we want to do is make a movie for our friends to watch. sure the administration will end up being one of the bad guys in the movie.. but that's not our fault. you've represented yourself to be that way. everyone knows it.but arrest us. give us detention, we're not going to go to it anyways. we are more creative than that. we will be more successful in our failures that you'll ever be, because we've figured out hundreds of ways to make those failures our triumphs. nothing can get us down. take away our skate parks, we're just going to keep building new ones. take away our grilled cheese makers, we're just going to keep making them. don't want us jumping rope in the halls? open up the gym. don't want us making this town more beautiful? then we'll take our talents elsewhere.we're not going to stop.our uniqueness will continue to grow. and it's continuing now more than ever, because it has been spread out all over the province. country. continent. world.there is no end in sight.we are the eccentric kids from uxbridge. and we're growing up, and learning more, and faster, and we will change the world.