Another look at my subculture

One of my first impressions on my subculture, the band, was the typical reaction, band geeks, band nerds, and losers. I reacted in a way that pretty much anyone who was not in band reacted. I did not want to be involved with this. I did not want to be friends with these kids. I was too cool for the band world. I first started to change my mind when I really began to get in to music. I began playing guitar and took a guitar class throughout high school. This is where I met a whole new group of friends. Before this time, all my friends were the jocks and the athletes. I had never been friends with this completely different crowd of people before then. It was here that I met a lot of people who were in the band in high school. It was where I first began shaping a new opinion of the people I had judged and ridiculed before I even knew them. I became friends with some of these people and that is where my whole opinion changed. I know I am an outsider because I have never myself been in band or played any of the instruments generally associated with band. I would definitly not be allowed to sit in the middle of the band section during a basketball game or to march on the field with them during football games. Although I can watch from the side, that is all I can do. This is how I know I am an outsider.