Org confessions.

[Hooahguy]

Ok guys, I'm probably going to sound harsh, but trying to appear cool while confessing you have no RL is utterly stupid.

This is a confessional, as the title implies, and I shouldn't judge you, but since I've been in the same situation, I'll still do it anyway.
I used to be pretty anti-social, pretending to dislike people and what not. I was the worst of the nerds, and I tried to hide it behind a "badass guy who doesn't speak at all like that guy from this well known movie" kind of attitude. I spent most of my times in my room, playing video games, reading books and watching TV, talking to "MSN friends" that I've never meet IRL, and you can't even imagine how I feel like I wasted my time doing that.

Now, I'm even more badass than I used to be (;-P), except that I actually have friends, enjoy my life, have fun, even though I think I still spend too much time on my computer.
Not only that, but one of my uni room mate completely reminds me of myself a few years ago. Pretending to be anti-social, nerdish beyond belief, and hiding everything behind a pompous and arrogant attitude (in his case, he's supposedly addicted to Nietzche's writing and theories). Yet, I often hear him complaining because he doesn't have a girl friend or what not, and I'm like "what the hell dude, you're never going to get a girl with this kind of attitude ! Take care of yourself, and stop pretending to dislike people because you're too shy to talk to them."
I'm trying to help him by bringing him to pubs and introducing him to new people, and I hope that by the end the year, he'll finally drop his stupid way of life.

how did you break free of it? i have many of the same problems you had.... just maybe a bit better...