Charles “Chas” Bohrer
Professor Young
ENGW 1100: Getting to Know You
27 August 2015
Hello
internet! My name is Chas Bohrer, I am from the small boring town of Basking
Ridge New Jersey. I lived there for all my life and I only really know the area
around my town when talking about New Jersey. I’ve been out of the state plenty
of times though. My family usually goes to South Carolina for two weeks of the
summer, since I’m now a college kid I didn’t go with my mom and pop to South
Carolina this year. Whenever I tell myself I’m in college a weird feeling just
crawls over my body, it’s like my bodies telling me you shouldn’t be in college
you’re still a kid, when I’m not anymore but I still feel like one. The kid
inside of me is hard to control because I never really want to be an adult.
Eventually I will have responsibilities to take care, I can’t stop that from
happening. Job’s, girlfriends, pets, cars, houses, documents, taxes, more
girlfriends, lawyers, doctors, retirement homes, vacations, food, clothes, and
even more girlfriends are all responsibilities that I will face in life and I
don’t know if I’m ready for em yet. Ya feel?
I like
to relax by listening to music ranging from David Bowie and Elton John all the
way to the kinds of Kurt Cobain. Whose ever heard of an adult listening to
American Idiot on blast when eating a box of cereal while driving, I sure haven’t.
I like being reckless and immature and those traits are what every kid has I
think, along with ignorance which I’m sad to say, you don’t have to be a kid to
possess. I am a pretty passionate man when it comes to doing the right thing
based of morals. I’m not like most people I’d say when it comes to what I
enjoy. I like video games as much as the next guy, but I only play em to pass
the time, to keep myself busy. I don’t really know what I enjoy, I guess that’s
why I’m an undecided major, I like talking with people but I don’t hold on to
friendships even though I should. I will become great friends with someone and
they’ll want to do something with me and I never follow up on it. Don’t ask me
why I don’t, I just don’t. I am still trying to figure myself out and really
understand who I am. I love listening to people, hearing new stories, learning
their philosophies on life. I guess that’s something I can say I love, I love
listening and understanding people.
Being
not a quiet guy, I talk a whole lot when I’m with people who I feel comfortable
with but when I’m in an unfamiliar scene I tend to stay back and observe. I
love picking up on the subtle nuances that people do. Whoever is reading this
you probably think I’m a weird guy, you’re right I am. I’ve been rejected by
girls because they said I was too weird for them, and I’m like alright. I think
everybody is weird. People who are weird are weird because they are not “normal”
enough. There is no set “normal” because we as human beings have the ability to
think freely and make our own opinions which no other goddamn species on earth
can do! If there was a set normal the world would be in the fucking stone age
still, we’d be getting mauled by lions, tigers, and bears oh my! The thing “normal”
makes us afraid of being ourselves! If people call you weird, don’t take
offense to that because in all likelihood you are a fucking weirdo and you
should express your weirdness. Einstein, Thoreau, Gates, Jobs, Lincoln, Gandhi,
all those guys are strange, bizarre, creepy dudes who ended up creating amazing
things. If you are caught up in trying to change others opinions to be “normal”
you’re the strange guy. Wanting everyone to be like you not only makes me think
less of you it also makes me think you’re a dick.
Another
philosophy that live by is to not force your thoughts down other peoples
throats. I had a problem of telling people they were being a jerk or they weren’t
funny because I thought I was trying to help em. You can’t try to change someone
for the better because they like being themselves and don’t want your help. A
dream of mine is to reach complete erudition. Erudition is basically the
mastery of learning. Whenever I talk to people I don’t tell them their ideas
are wrong because they’re not, every idea or thought is correct. Being able to
understand why someone might think that way or this way intrigues me. I always
ask questions about that topic, I want to find out more about that person
trying to understand their thought processes and reasoning. I’m a guy who is
extremely curious about everything and I get a lot of people annoyed about how
much I talk and how friendly I am.
Ima back
track a bit. My “real name” is Charles but I go by Chas. Chas is a shortened
name for Charles and I’ve never been called Charles so I really don’t know how
I got the name Chas. I’m going to be honest here readers for my English writing
class in college I have to write a blog and that’s why I’m writing this, and I
have to answer a couple questions. One of them that I have to answer is “When you
write, do you just sit at the computer and allow the words to flow or do you
have an outline?” Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha me using an outline that makes me smile
just thinking about it. I just press buttons and make words. In high school I
had to write small five paragraph papers which were really boring because I had
a topic to write about instead of writing about anything. I went to a super, small
school with 50 kids in total, I had no social life because of how small it was
but the good thing was the work was really easy. My English teacher let me
revise papers multiple times for a better grade which was real chill of her.
I wrote
a really bad essay for English once and my teacher read it out to the whole
class, which was really embarrassing. That taught me to write better or get
made fun of. Another thing that makes me “weird” is that I don’t really use
social media. I have a Facebook that I rarely ever use, I don’t have a Snap
Chat, or Instagram, I do have a twitter I never use, and I do have a kik
account that I use often actually to stay in touch with my friends.
I don’t
know if I mentioned this already but I’m a freshmen in college and I don’t know
how to describe my feelings right now, nothing has really changed I think. The first
semester of college I don’t have anything I really want to learn because I don’t
really have an interest, hopefully college can turn me on to something. As a
writer my grammar is poor as you probably could tell and I write unorganized. I
have great ideas just I can’t structure them well, I could learn something in
this English class that I’m taking, I would want to learn how to organize my
properly and know correct grammar. Thank you professor for reading this and all
people who stumble on these rambling thank you for reading it as well.
