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I will tell you what. He probably would have liked to have a girlfriend more than to hang around a bunch of kids in their early twenties treating him like their
by emodendroket 5y ago
I will tell you what. He probably would have liked to have a girlfriend more than to hang around a bunch of kids in their early twenties treating him like their baby brother, no matter how smart he was. It seems like a very narrow notion of the value of relationships with others if you think that any interaction where you’re not being intellectually challenged is worthless.
- bruce343434 5y agoI can tell you form experience having a significant other with a sufficient "gap" gets very demoralizing and frustrating. That, or I just can't appreciate what I have.
- emodendroket 5y agoThat can be frustrating, but the kind of isolation you'd get being a young kid in a college milieu would be much worse. The story goes that Nick the Greek introduced Albert Einstein to his gambling buddies as "Little Al from Princeton," who "controls a lot of the action around Jersey." I've always aspired to be able to move between worlds with that kind of grace.