Weird (2)

What is that thing called 'weird'? That weird, weird, weird weirdness haunting me...

Isn't it all about inconsistencies? Inconsistency with the normal. Inconsistency with the mainstream. Perceived weirdness is inconsistency in the eye of the beholder. Weirdness on the side of anyone except yourself is but an attributed value judgement.

'Weird' has so many different faces. It comes disguished as 'different in a refreshing way', knocking on your door on a boring afternoon. Bringing sparkles to your table, a glimmer in your eyes. It comes as a cold shower, hail pounding onto you: 'not normal enough in their eyes'. Out in the rain you feel alone, left alone. Weirdness often comes as an exclusion.

Exclusion, exclusion, exclusion... A drive for exclusion is fuelled by fears and insecurities. Fear of change. Insecurity about the validity of status quo. Fear to end up 'weird'. But to be 'weird' does not require much courage. To be labelled as 'weird' does ask for some more. It means standing strong in the face of adversary forces.

It takes most courage to label someone 'weird'. For only the person vulnerable enough to accept his or her own inconsistencies with that imagined mainstream knows the weight of the term and the responsability it entails. A value judgement is a choice after all...

*With love to my friends who to me are so different in their own refreshing ways. I miss you, I miss the sparks you leave on my table, the glimmer in your eyes, dudes & comrades!*