Well hello there.  If you’re thinking the title of my blog suggests an air of arrogance, you’d be forgiven.  However, it’s not out of pure arrogance that I chose the term, moreover  ’Bright Spark’ simply reflects my intellectual capacity shown from my ability to acheive high grades at school.  It’s not just my opinion of myself - my schooling history will show you that I’ve always been a high flyer as far as academics go.

When it comes to getting a girlfriend, well that’s an entirely different matter altogether.  I might be deemed as fairly (if not entirely) useless in the art of social wooing, as indeed my schooling history will also show you. (Something I may or may not choose to go into depending on how the mood takes me).

There, you see…a fairly well balance of arrogance and insecurity.  On the one hand I’m aware of my strengths especially when it comes to my intellectual capacity.  Yet at the same time I’m all to aware of my faults and don’t attempt to hide my self depreciating side. 

Perhaps I’m a bit conscious of the ‘arrogance’ thing because I’ve been labelled with the term in class as well as being perceived to be what most people would call ‘a geek’.  

The reason I created this blog was to feel free to express my talents as well as my insecurities without the fear of being judged; a fear that I have succumbed to all to often at school.

I hope to connect with other ’social outcasts’ (or ‘geeks’ as we’re so negatively labelled) in the hope that they too will empathise with the dilema of being brilliant, yet shunned.

And so I would like to begin as I mean to go on by asking the question:

How does it feel to have so much to give and yet be so socially rejected?