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.