LET’S TALK ABOUT BEING DIFFERENT

Being different springs from subtle things; it might be wanting to eat your hotdog with ketchup instead of the traditional mustard, it might be wanting to stay indoors to binge watch a Netflix series instead of going for a girls’ night, it might be wanting to play chess with your old neighbor when your friends go out to bar to check out hot girls, it could also be wanting to read really dark books instead of the “Billionaire boss romance collection” Staying different is a very hard thing in this world that glorifies normalcy.

You have to try once in a while to explain why you read those books or why you listen to those songs or why you’d rather be alone, but no matter how hard you try to explain, they just don’t get it. Being weird and crazy and eccentric is all fun until you start getting left out, your friends stop calling you out even to your favorite shows because you’d rather show up with baggies and hoodies than strapless flashy blue gowns. You start asking yourself questions like “is it because I read too much of Allan Poe and now they think I might smother them in their sleep?” or “am I so different from the rest of them?”

Well, I’ve been there too and I’m still the weird friend of the group; the one that listens to music no wants to hear, the one that has a really dark perspective of how the world works and the unconventional one too. And it’s hard being that friend, you get insulted sometimes, you cry because they don’t even try to understand you even if it’s just a little bit. It’s sad and it’s scary too.

But it will be sadder if you give up your very special lifestyle just because you want to fit into a group that doesn’t even get you. It’s fun to sit back sometimes and watch people try to untangle every piece of you or solve you like a puzzle. What’s being normal anyway? For what it’s worth, being normal is a little bit too boring, no complicated drama or dark humour, or dark rooms and slow music. You just need to accept who you are and be comfortable to live in your own skin. Being different doesn’t make you a geek, it makes you beautiful and I can assure you, it’s a different kind of high.