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Swelled headed kiddy?
So, newly-teened Bagguette seems somewhat charmed. All the girls think he's heavenly, (he looks more like his mom than me, obviously), he excels in at least two sports per season, (top scorer in soccer, killer linebacker in football, top scorer in basketball), everyone wants to be his bud, the girls never stop calling, (like, five per night, plus his killer straight-A state-level-soccer player girlfriend), he's a straight-A student (except when he decides it's not important, which so far has included MATH!?, which he does great but thinks the homework is stoooopid), his relatives all coo over him because he's so funny and friendly and smart and helpful and . . .), but I think he's getting really good at living off of his rep.
He's turning into one of those winner kids I used to resent in HS, and I think he's picking up all of the traits that made me resent them. He's taking his popularity for granted, (well, yeah, dad, of course they all call me all the time) he's somewhat dismissive of those what don't have the same attributes (I love talking like the guy in The Alienist), and it just strikes me that he's taking his salad days too much as his natural due. I don't think he recognizes his charmed existence.
Am I being nutso? Too resentful of what I didn't have? I can't tell. I just don't want him to grow into one of those people who take everything for granted and discount the idea that other people might not enjoy the advantages, natural or not, that he has.
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