Being an introvert is fine. It didn't stop Isaac Newton or Emily Dickinson from doing great things.
Forget about the frat. Go hack on a project that interests you. Both you and the world will be better off for it.
Forget about the frat. Go hack on a project that interests you. Both you and the world will be better off for it.
Or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cavendish
"""Cavendish was silent and solitary, and was viewed as somewhat eccentric by many. He only spoke to his female servants by notes and formed no close personal relationships outside his family. By one account, Cavendish had a back staircase added to his house in order to avoid encountering his housekeeper because he was especially shy of women. His only social outlet was the Royal Society Club, whose members dined together before weekly meetings. Cavendish seldom missed these meetings, and was profoundly respected by his contemporaries. However his shyness made those who "sought his views... speak as if into vacancy. If their remarks were...worthy, they might receive a mumbled reply."
Because of his asocial and secretive behaviour, Cavendish often avoided publishing his work, and much of his findings were not even told to his fellow scientists. In the late nineteenth century, long after his death, James Clerk Maxwell looked through Cavendish's papers and found things for which others had been given credit. Examples of what was included in Cavendish's discoveries or anticipations were Richter's Law of Reciprocal Proportions, Ohm's Law, Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures, principles of electrical conductivity (including Coulomb's Law), and Charles's Law of Gases."""
since they're not, i feel a little sorry for the fellow, and it isn't obvious what you're trying to say, unless it is "you can't get laid except by joining a frat'
If you're one of those people who look down on the pursuit of sex as not worthy of their time/intelligence/effort replace "sex" with "love".
Is doing math more important than experiencing love?
Anyway, I think OP is making the point that it's perfectly possible to do great intellectual things, make a difference in the world, and still get laid regularly.
So "I'm too busy doing math" isn't really a valid excuse.
Isaac Newton found a way to achieve immortality, he just did it by reproducing his ideas on paper as opposed to making mini-clones of himself with his dick.
All I'm saying is that, although Newton accomplished great things, he would have felt more fulfilled and happier if he had also experienced a romantic relationship at some point.
Now, obviously there exist some people that are asexual and have no innate desire for sex, and there's nothing wrong with that.
However, I don't believe there is any healthy person in the world, no matter how introverted, who does not at some point desire a deep, meaningful relationship with another human being.
I completely agree with you that relationships can be fulfilling.
I completely disagree with you that we should be so presumptuous as to let our experiences with modern day relationships say how one of the most influential people in the entire history of mankind should have lived his life in the 1600s while completely discounting societal factors such as the role of the Church in that time period and how vastly different courtship was from what we know now.
The 1600s.
It is possible that Newton might have been happier if he had experienced a romantic relationship, but it is just as likely he would have been unaffected, or worse off even.