Weird People!!

I'm home alone today with only my thoughts to keep me company.  My world has been pretty crazy insane lately and the house looks like a domestic explosion happened.  I was thinking about stuff in general and I wanted to tell you what I realized.

Weird people don't think they are weird.  

Do you see what I'm saying here?  No one thinks of themselves as one of the weird ones.  I mean I know I'm quirky and not run of the mill but it is my own opinion that I am not strange as in certifiable.  

Take my exercise class for instance.  There is a woman in there that it brings me great joy when she gets where I can see her because she is hysterical to watch.  She is all over the place with not a stitch of rhythm to her little hairy armpit mismatched clothing wearin' body!  She is hysterical!  The thing is...she doesn't know it.  It's not like she comes in there are realizes that she is putting on a little show for me.  She is very serious about her exercising and never cracks a smile.  I am quite positive without a doubt that she thinks she looks good working out.  

Let's go a little more extreme.  To me it is weird to pierce and tattoo and disfigure your body beyond recognition.  I'm not talking about the occasional tattoo.  I'm talking about the people that put the things in their skull to look like horns and split their tongue to look like a reptile.  To me that is bizarre.  I can not even imagine doing something like that to myself, but to them it is totally normal.  They have friends that look the exact same way and they get together to discuss their piercings and tattoos and infections and blood clots.  They know that you look at them like their weird but they don't think they are.  

Let's go a little less extreme what about vegetarians?  There are meat loving carnivores who become completely offended by people who don't eat meat.  What about people who don't cut their hair or won't drive cars?  Weird right?  No, not to them.  

Weirdness is a matter of opinion.  Weirdness is just difference, and difference is a good thing.  We don't need to all be cookie cutter people, Stepford wives if you will.  It is totally okay to be a little different from everyone else.  As long as you are being kind to others and understanding that this is a big planet that we all live on and there is room for all of us you will do just fine.  

You can find something in common with anyone if you look hard enough.  Do you both like to breathe?  Start there.  It's crazy how fast you can find common ground when you try.  Do not distance yourselves from others just because you do not understand them.  Knowledge is power and Kindness can change the world.  

Go out and talk to a weirdo today....and if someone comes up and talks to you don't be offended, cause its good to be weird!!