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“So why exactly did you quit the debate club?” asked the brown haired girl whom I’d been holding a fairly run-of-the-mill conversation with.
“Well it was mainly the teacher’s fault. She didn’t know how to do anything, and it just really got old. I just got burned out on it.” I responded.
It’s been a month since I moved to Lakewood, and I am just now making even mildly interesting acquaintances. It’s been the same old ruteen, meeting people, initiating conversations with people whenever possible, in the hopes of making friendships, then only to find out that people only want to talk to me when they are bored, because their other friends aren’t around, but as soon as they are back in their clique they have neither time nor care for me.
“Well I think you should join here. We’ve got a good coach, and a pretty good team, of course you’ll have to wait till next year to get a starting position if your any good, but you can still go on the trips.” She said pretending to care, acting friendly.
“Well I am a senior, so I guess I’m out of luck.” I commented.
“Well,…” she said beginning another long comment, while my mind wandered to other less boring topics, such as why the Jacob was leaning over and saying something to Seon at the front of the class room. I mean they weren’t suppose to be talking. Maybe Jacob just had a question about work. I don’t know. “So what do you think?” I heard the girl ask.
“Oh, oh yeah, maybe.” I answer pretending as though I had heard every word that had proceeded from her mouth.
The girl whose name I still hadn’t caught then turned around and started another menial conversation with another girl to her left. Something about Seon it sounded like. Anyhow the conversation was not worth listening in on.
I would like to pause her and tell you that I am not trying to fit into this society. I am not initiating conversations with people in order to have friends, and to be accepted, no I don’t seek friendship, or even relationships. They are all worthless. What I do seek is the benefits to friendship. What I mean here is that, every friendship, every relationship has some sort of power. One of the two parties, or maybe both has some percentage of power of the other person. Every relationship I believe exists in this manner.
I you see lust after power, but to gain power in a society based on popularity, friendship with people must be achieved. Of course one must not only seek a friendship of any kind, no you must try to start a friendship up on top. What I mean here is if you can place yourself in a position so as to increase your manipulative power a person, your over all power is increased, and then with more massive numbers of friends, your power therefor multiplies.
If, if only there was a way to gain power with out the trivial relationships one must rack up over the long course of time? If only I could think of a way to control even the most powerful leaders, without having to penetrate each and every clique and group in the school, performing an impossible task, by taking each and every one of them over individually.
Of course I guess you wouldn’t nessicarily have to the leader of an individual group in order to hold that groups power, no instead you could master the power over the already present leader, and then how you influence that leader will therefore greatly influence the group. But how can one control the leaders? What one thing can you offer each of them that will lure them into a relationship where in my manipulative power can over ride their own?
I can assume that the leaders want the same thing I do, so if I could offer each of them more power, in return for what I want, possibly I could control a massive amount of the society. But then again how can I offer them more power, when I have none to contribute. Maybe I need to find a commodity which I can give away but do not already posses. If I could give away someone else’s power, under the pretense that it was my own, that would work, or even better if I could give away a power that doesn’t exist. Or if I could create a new power, and offer it to them. Yes, this might work.
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