Change is hard, and I don't feel right all the time. They way I naturally talk? People think it's mean. My love for video games? People think it's childish. I don't like to swear, yet everyone—especially in my high school—does it all the time and every time I hear it I become apprehensive and feel like I missed out on something. And when I try to explain myself and my preference for quiet spaces, nobody takes me seriously. They want me to go out there and change myself. But how do I get started? That's what they never tell me.
I enjoy The Bell Tree and its community and I have no intention of quitting, but to be honest sometimes it doesn't feel right for me to go on there and interact with the regulars. After my English unit on Fahrenheit 451 (that happened before I became active here), I came to realize the fact that nothing can beat physical, interpersonal communication. People want me to make friends with the students, but I unfortunately feel alienated by their habits, so that's hard... Sometimes I feel like, at this point, I'm already living in Guy Montag's world, a victim to the parlor walls.