When I was little, I was always fighting for a little attention. My parents used to tell me to "shut up" constantly but I never understood why. I didn't understand then why my obsessive discussions about Star Wars and Doctor Who were so annoying to them. They didn't want to know about the propulsion systems or torpedo systems used in Luke's x-wing fighter or about how the TARDIS's dimensional transcendentalism was achieved. Nope, they just wanted to hear the boring "real-life" stories. I on the other hand didn't want to discuss my "real-life" stories, especially since I used to spend all day dreaming my way out of them. I didn't want to talk about how I played with nobody or how I took a ball to school and the other kids played with it but excluded me. My fantasy worlds were what kept me going. I soon learned that the best way to be listened to was to talk about real things but make them exciting. To talk about the endin...