Do you think you are weird? I know you are weird. Doesn’t even matter who you are, you are weird.
You may read that and got a little upset so now let’s dig a little deeper. Weird is really relative to where you are and who you are around. Think about that for a moment. Let it sink in. If you place someone totally different than you in your life you will look at them a little strange and think to yourself they are weird or they are ‘not normal’.
The Harry Potter movie will come out tonight at 12:01am. There will be many people in line to see this movie. Many of them will be dressed up in their Hogwart’s attire. They will have robes on, they will have their wands, glasses like Harry, and beards like Dumbledore. You on the other hand may see this on TV and think “wow those people are weird”. However to their surroundings and the other people there at the premiere they are ‘normal’.
Those same Harry Potter fanatics will look at you on a fall Saturday and think that you are weird as you dress up in red and black from head to toe. You pack coolers, grills, and drive for miles to go sit in a stadium to yell and scream at a bunch of 18 to 20 year olds. You get emotionally tied to what happens on that field. Your mood is affected by a win or a loss. And this is normal to you. Why? Because you are around several thousand others doing the same thing.
I am weird and I am proud of it. You are weird too, embrace it, enjoy it. Understand that just because someone isn’t like you doesn’t make them weird, it just makes them different than you. It sure would be a boring place if we were all the same.
Next time you say someone is weird just remember they probably are thinking the same thing about you.
