Room For Squares ?

So I have a story that I personally think is pretty cool. When I was a kid I was kind of geeky, not a nerd because nerds are smart but geeky is where I fit it in. Although the friends I had were not geeky (except for one..later on). We all played sports like young boys should, we all swore when we felt is was (un)necessary, we fought or should I say I got into a lot of fights, mainly with my best friend at the time, every year of elementary since kindergarten we would have an all out brawl, we were always friends after but still, I'm not sure to why this happened so much. I was the best dancer in my class, I had all the moves, I took them mainly from the New Kids On The Block, MJ, Mc Hammer, Vanilla Ice, you know, the guys with the talent. But basically I was the geeky kid in the class, I wasn't that smart, I always struggled in school, I was a great reader, but when it came to math and crap like that..I just couldn't deal with it. During this time my spiritual life was well..."there" I always knew there was God and Jesus since I was like 5 years old, we went to church which was boring just like any other kid would think, I went to camp only for one week out of the entire year, and boy would that do me some good and bad, it would take me at least two weeks to get over the fact that camp has ended and that I won't be back until next year, it hurt everytime. Entering jr.High was a scary time for me, most of my friends went to different schools and we all lost contact very quickly, and yet most of us lived within less then a 1 mile radius of each other. I began to hangout with the only friends I did have which were two people from my elementary, they started to head down the wrong path and I followed, never doing anything super wrong but for the most part I could feel something was amiss.

This part is cool cuz this is where God steps in when I was stepping out and away. In Gr.8 I lost my boys from my previous years of school, I lost them to drugs and other wrong crap. So one day on this field trip I met this guy named Mike, who then knew this guy named Jon, and both knew this little turd named Tiberio. At the time I didn't like Tiberio, he didn't like me, I talked a lot with Mike as the weeks went buy and we hit it off, eventually all 3 of us became really good friends. Us 3 guys were very weird together, we made up our own words, talked strangely, constantly punched each other in the arm, we became somewhat popualr, cuz now the geeks had a crew, and we got recognition for that, soon all the other "cool" peeps would talk to us and chill with us once in a while..it was good. One day something hit me, and I realized that God gave me these friends, to get me out of the dark path I was being led down, with these weird, geeky retards God saved me, he sent me those guys. Now the best part about it is this, those guys needed a leader, they needed someone to follow, someone who was not an idol type, but someone who was just like them, someone they could talk to and admire and relate with. I was that person, the geeky kid that followed everyone else, later became the leader. We're all still friends, all through high school, we still hangout on occasion, except for one of us.

God knew my heart and he knew my potential, I can say that, that was the first time I actually noticed God doing something in my life, something empowering and uplifting and maturing for me. Recently a girl noticed a picture of mine on the net and she couldn't believe it was me, how good looking I got was her main surprise, but still I'll take it anyway, she was blown away. Also last year I ran into a guy I haven't seen since gr.6, he's all slow in the head from the Mary Jane he's been smoking since gr.7. It goes to show that God does have a plan for the unoticed ones, the geeky ones, the forgotten, the horribly shy ones. I look at this story and it reminds of other stories like how the tortise beat the hare, or how the Jedi Returned...eventually. I'm proud to be a Christian, to be used in ways other people will never have the chance to because they themselves do not see their own potential nor will God touch that potential without surrender to him. Room for Squares as a title fits nicely for many of my own reasons, I was a square and God made sure that there was more then enough room for me.