I actually became less cynical. I even had the definition of cynicism as my facebook description when I first created it. I thought it was a really cool concept and identified with that state of mind. I used to have pretty unoriginal thoughts and write them down as deep. I wrote a huge cringeworthy rant at 13 about how everyone wants to be "different" and say that society sucks but that nobody could be "different" if it was not for society providing them a baseline of what is normal. It definitely reeks of that "I'm too smart to be rebellious" attitude... I'm pretty happy that the furthest I can find is my 13 year old self's blog. I can't imagine what kind of stupidities i wrote down on the internet earlier. I was pretty ignorant of issues and felt very entitled and smart. For sure I was be the kind of person to argue that if you're not a dumbass, it's very easy to get out of poverty. shudder