What I've lived and how I've learned

Sometimes you have to take a step back to et a better look at things. Breaking your normal, familiar pattern and going away to a new city with all new people for four weeks allowed me to do that. Of course, I've learner a lot about bartendering, which I came there to learn, but mostly, by getting to know so many new people and attempting to socialise with a whole new type of individuals brought me closer to really getting to know myself.
I'd like to start by stating that my abilities to bond with groups of "normal" people my age is severely limited. It seems that people who don't take the time to get to know me well enough to know that my confidence is just and act really don't like the person I pretend to be. It's not that I haven't made friends per se, and some of them I might even meet again, it's just that I'm disappointed that I was unable to get to know most people on a deeper level than that they thought that I was shallow and egocentric.
First impressions really can be deceiving. Despite me considering myself quite skilled when it comes to judging characters, I was very wrong on some fronts. As it turns out, some nice guys are only nice as long as they think they're getting into your pants. Meanwhile, other genuinely good guys get a bad reputation amongst the girls for not turning down the women throwing themselves at them.
The "socially awkward" kid at the back of the class might turn out to be mentally ill and trash an apartment before threatening with violence and then falling down the stairs, and the girls you bring home from a club for a one-night stand might end up calling the police on your room-mate.
Some people stuck to themselves and some people stuck to anyone who seemed to be having fun. Some people stuck to their boy/girlfriends and some people... didn't. It's the double moral between men and women: a guy might get too drunk to remember that he has a girlfriend back home, but she will never find out so it's more funny than anything else, but if a girl drinks and dances with new guys she is criticised for being a bad girlfriend. It might be associated with guys' constant need to prove themselves.

There were no break-ups, only a shattered friendship, which struck the group constellation quite hard. The love stories were shot down before they had a chance to happen.
I suppose, all in all, there were two types of people on the trip: The more common fun-seeking, impulsive and rather selfish people who would just go along with whatever seemed the most amusing at that time, and the reliable, responsible, serious people, most of which got screwed over by people of the aforementioned type.
Where did I fit in?
I supposed I've always had a talent for being at least two standard deviations outside of the curve.