[sionnsar]

Those of us who were still coherently functioning found pleasure in small things that “seemed” normal.

I decided it wasn't worth it and walked off in my own directions, to my own drummer (or should I say piper?), to wit:
Became a techie long before geek was hip
Replaced rock with: Classical, Indian (mixed on this but kept it after they dumped it), Middle East (kept folk, though, and added Celtic)
Gave up all "news" magazines (a decade before I discovered National Review)
Took up bagpipes (an instrument of WAR, don'cha know?)
Played around with CB (definitely trucker and right-orientation, 10-4?)
Got a job (for a time) at NASA

Oh. And remained a faithful church-goer. (Good thing, or I'd never have met LoM.)

[Monkey Face]

Let me see...

I always went “there” instead of where everyone else was
I always liked geeky/techy men (”Revenge Of The Nerds” comes to mind, here, for some odd reason...)
I was listening to classical when I was 12, along with C&W, pop, rock (American Bandstand) and... (or maybe earlier)
Never got into news magazines because I didn’t like the way the presented the “news”
Had a CB long before “Pig Pen, this here’s the Rubber Ducky” was popular.
Read Josephus, Plato, Greek mythology, etc in my late teens...

And had a hard time finding a religion to fit my beliefs!!! (I looked around a LOT!)