Mondays With Mike

My wife has encouraged me to blog for a while now so; I thought I would give it a try. I am pushing 30 years old and have decided that I am a full fledged geek. But, I have realized that I am ok with that. In my teen years through my twenties I tried to push away the feelings. I loved video games. I loved comic books. I loved sci-fi movies. I was told that these are the feelings of the less popular or otherwise called geeks, nerds, dorks etc, etc. My future coming out would be foreshadowed by my chosen college major, computer science. At the time I made fun of some of my classmates as they played games in the computer lab on Friday nights. Little did I know that I would be doing the same thing ten years later….and enjoying it (See Gears of War). Luckily, I did grow up in a generation where playing video games was socially acceptable so I was able to pursue this passion. The exception was playing them on Friday or Saturday night. Then you were just seen as someone that can’t get a date. I stopped reading comic books at the age of 13 or 14. This alone would stigmatize you as a geek would be hard to come back from. A year ago I walked into a comic book store and picked up an issue of superman. I was instantly hooked again. No longer having the fear of what people think has freed me. I think the clincher to all this was when Amy said that I am just like my father. I thought about it and said yeah, I guess I am. I love my father. I want to be like my father. He is strong, sensitive, spiritual and brave in the face of adversity. If you know what has been going on with my family then you know how brave he has to be. Is being spiritual also geeky? I think some people would say so. Again, luckily I grew up in a church that had a great youth group. It was acceptable to be spiritual. This is not always the case however. Matthew 5:5 states “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.” Now I would not be so bold to change the word of God. However, under the meaning of meek would be a note stating “otherwise known as a geek”. So, being called a geek doesn’t bother me anymore and shouldn’t as long as I am a geek for Christ. I know that I’m in good company with people like my father in this world. So, expect more blogs from my inner Geekdom and some that are of a spiritual nature.