I realize this is entirely ancillary to your main point, but it'll be easier to be proud of everything else as you get older. Popular means something entirely different after college, geeky means there are more things you enjoy, shaving is a pain and some folk like a hairy woman, and kinky people have more and better sex (http://www.straight.com/article-119275/kinky-sex-makes-for-happy-people).

"Look over there. See them? Ordinary fucking people. I hate them."
"Mee too."
- Repo Man