My favorite and most recognized compliment is when someone utters to me “you are so weird”. Thank you – Because in that moment, it is confirmed that I am me. You are not me, you are not them, I am not you. I’m weird, I own it, you should too.
I consider myself an artist. Therefore, my artistic abilities fuel my creativity. My weird fuels it all. It’s not only benefited by artists either, there are plenty other aspects where my weird benefits me. It benefits us all. It places you outside the box, and what’s already inside the box we know. If we all stayed inside the box, keeping our weird under wraps, there would be no new as a result.
Weird? Or Not Boring:
Most don’t seek it out, this title of weird. Normally, no pun intended, we earn the title by just being ourself though. It should be a compliment. It also seems that we relinquish the title as we get older. We get older, and though we seek fun and thrills, it’s by achieving boring.
We hold back our true selves to fit in with the crowd – Or sometimes just a crowd. There is nothing boring about weird. Some of the people we look up to most are because of their weird. It’s just that we’ve accepted their weird. On the contrary, someone else’s weird that we normally prejudge, can come off as too weird.
And that’s alright. Orange juice pulp is too weird for my taste buds. So much, that I avoid it. Maybe, I’m too weird for it, I don’t know, but we are both fine with that. I wouldn’t not invite it to breakfast if someone else wanted it to tag along as their guest. Hello pulp, welcome to the party, mi table su table. We don’t have any beef with each other.
You know who I do have a quarrel with? Crab. Its weirdness tries to hurt me. And here I thought it tastes really good. Yeah, fooled me – I swell up like a balloon. Shame on you, I thought we were cool. Just once though, I feel like we would normally vibe. Nope, fooled me again, shame on me. Where was I going with this?
Oh – Not everything tastes great to everyone, but bland is just, well, bland.
Freak? Or Unique:
The term freak has so much more of an endearing use then it used to. I feel like it used to be a shout-out to cut someone down. For what, being different, that’s just being unique. Now, we awe at it, which is good. Own that title, for it means your differences are a phenomenon. A freak is so unique that they are sought after in amazement.
Come on, you have your freaks in the sheets, the Greek Freak, freaktastic, freak-of-nature, super freak, Freaky two-shoes, freaky-deeky, freak nasty, and even your control freaks. Now don’t freak out just yet. It’s not easy being a freak though. You would have to weird so extremely well to earn that title now. Not just look that part, but own that shit.
Here is my weird, can you outshine me in this? No, well go sit down somewhere while I let the freak loose.
But where is this even going? We seek things that are so unique that we title it freak.
To Me? Or Not To Me:
You ever try to be anyone else? It can be exhausting. It can be fun for the moment too, stepping out of character for the pure thrill of it. Like what we do for Halloween for instance. We put on a costume to try to pull off the most elaborate schemes we can think of and party. I love it.
Eventually, we have to strip it all away to get back to being ourselves, where we thrive. We can’t remain vampires constantly if you’re not used to being a vampire. What, you just gonna suck on random peoples neck all the time now? You wanna continue being Batgirl or Harley Quinn? Gopher it – You’ll begin to attract a lot of jokers with corny pickup lines as a result.
We enjoy doing this so much on the occasion because we share the moment with friends. Friends and loved ones who already know the real you. We feel comfortable showing another side that we might not show as often. That’s our weird side.
Come on, you get what I’m saying here. There’s a reason you chose to dress up as Spider-Man or Chewbacca. The weird side of you wants out. We can relate to these characters some how. We have fun letting loose. That’s why you didn’t go to the party dressed up as your gerbil in the cage.
Where is this going? You don’t have wait to dress up as a character, we all already are.
Weird is Weird:
Weird is good, so own that shit. Merriam-Websters explains weird as: of strange or extraordinary character.
I normally use this section to bring all of it together, but, keeping it weird. So, I am just going to start rambling because I sometimes like to ramble.
Did you know that a Hot Tamale stuck up the nose really burns?
Ooh, I really like that dough. And that’s how the cookie crumbles.
Whoa… why does this milk smell like a fart? I call bullshit.
I am allergic to crab and though people think it’s hard, it’s soft shell too.
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