a thought on being weird.

Dr. Seuss once said, ""We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."


Since the start of my time here i've noticed that most people comment on me "being weird." Some seem to think that if they tell me i "have nice hair" somehow i'll forget that i'm weird. And honestly i don't know what it is that makes me weird. Maybe it's my bad habit of breaking into show tunes at random moments, or maybe it's my vast knowledge of pop culture. Actually, i know what it is, it MUST be the outburst i had over being sorted into the Hufflepuff house when i took the "What Harry Potter House Do You Belong In?" quiz online... No, that can't be it. 


Dictionary.com defines "weird" as "involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: fantastic; bizarre." So apparently my personality involves witches.... ANYWHO, we need to start to appreciate weirdness. Frankly, i think it makes the world go round, not really, but it does make the turning of the world far more interesting, far more "fantastic". Imagine a world in which everyone was normal (if that was even possible)  it wouldn't be nearly as entertaining.


Now, i'm just as annoyed as everyone else out there by people who are WAY too proud about being weird there are times when it is appropriate to be weird and other times when it is not so appropriate. I'm talking about the people that are in your face about being weird. We all know that person whether it be the weird guy in your class that has the obnoxious laugh, and rolls his eyes whenever you talk to him, or it just might be your brother. Either way there about as annoying as a bro. So control your weirdness, at least a little bit, because there reaches a point where Gator has had enough, a'ight?


I do realize the implications of this: we not only accept the people who are weird in a funny, quirky, and cool way - like me- but also people who are weird in a socially handicapped, never seen a PG13 movie, doesn't know how the human body functions way-homeschoolers- but i mean, hey, they're cool too, right?.... right?!  [side note: i was home schooled.... soooooo been there done that.]


long live weirdness!