"You’re weird." I’ve had this said to me many times, and I have often wondered what prompts these words. Perhaps I am doing something "weird" but doesn’t this tend to vary, based on what each person thinks weird is? I may think that running down the hallway screaming is weird while you may find this to be perfectly normal. You may think that dancing backstage before perfoming is weird while I think this is fun. You see, it is all based on your perceptation.
That is why I find it very annoying when people tell me I’m weird. That’s nice that they feel this way, but perhaps they should think before they utter these words. While I may take this fine because I’m used to it, someone else may not. How many times have we been a hypocrite? We tell someone they are weird for dancing after getting an A on a test and then we turn around and do the same thing? Or we tell someone that studying for a test is weird when we know that we go home and study?
Many times, my friends have told that I’m weird for not knowing what I was trying to say, but they find it funny when they forget. We all do things like this and calling each other weird isn’t going to get us anywhere. I often wonder what goes though people’s heads when they call each other names or say something rude. I know that I don’t often realize that people are going to take what I say the wrong way. When I explain this to other people, I get those annoying words uttered at me. "You’re weird."
Who are they to tell me that I’m less than I should be? Who are they to judge me on only one side of me that they see? They don’t know how they think and I they don’t know what I do when I go home. They are only seeing a part of me and making judgments calls off of that. Don’t we all do that? We see someone one, and in that split second, we judge them. We think they are too tall, too ugly, or fat. If this is true, we decide we don’t need to talk to them or they aren’t right for us. Why should that split second define that person? Why should you pass up someone who could turn out to be your soul mate?
Underneath all of us is a hypocrite. We all feel hurt by what other people say and so we turn around and do it to someone else. It is one big endless cycle. So when is this cycle going to stop? Who is going to take the first step? We don’t need to listen to the list of things OTHERS feel we need to change, after all, it’s their own personal opinon. Remember, what one person feels is weird may be cool to someone else. What one person may find an annoying habit, someone else may accept.
No one defines you, no one owns you. You are your own person and you can think for yourself. Only change what you feel needs to be changed. After all, what if you change for someone else and then learn that they aren’t who you thought they were? And the person you like enjoyed you the way you used to be? Wouldn’t that be a disappointment?
