I think being mean to people in high school is healthy. It's sort of like you're in this situation with all these other kids and sometimes you need to get your aggression out. And if you'd had people be mean to you before, it really does build character.
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.