Everyone tells me I'm strange

[cemeteryismyhome]

This morning, at church, a kind 90-year-old person told me point blank "You're a strange person". When I was a kid this used to confuse me and hurt my feelings. I'm almost old now, so I'm used to it and expect it and accept it. The more often I say what I mean and act like myself, the worse it gets. My purpose in life, if I have one, is to be the perpetual outlier, the oddball in any given group, the alien on the wrong planet. I think maybe it's a product of evolution to preserve the species. Need a few nuts on the outside just in case. I don't think I'm strange. I think I'm just brutally honest about the insanity of life and say it out loud instead of trying to hide it like most other people do. God made me this way because he has a sense of humor beyond human comprehension. I'm too tired to care anymore.

 

[princexhhn]

so you're a blunt person who doesn't function within society's expectations of niceties and white lies

 

[Pluto]

 

[Niron1492]

I think it's fine if you're honest,every person is different and you just happen to be a more straightforward type rather than lying or pretending that everything goes well.

Even if people don't appreciate your sincerity,it is better to be more truthful at how fragile life is that even one bad decision can ruin it.

Its nice that you are a genuine person and see how life is(well i guess im too young to have an opinion on that but you know it better),thank you for sharing this. :)

 

[heywey]

What you say reminds me of this:


Some people (and penguins) are just different from others. It sucks to be one of them, but at the same time that's the only way things can ever change. There are penguins (and people) all the way from the Galapagos to Australia only because some are compelled to wander away from the flock into the unknown.

Small comfort when you're out there alone, I know. But for what it's worth I think the world would be a better place with more people who can be brutally honest about the insanity of life. So thank you for wandering off in that direction and helping to make the path a little easier for everyone else.

 

[Forever Sleep]

I've been told I'm strange before. I kind of embrace it too. Not sure I like 'normies' enough to be want to be 'normal'. For me, it was mostly because I was so obsessed with art. But then, a lot of creative people I've met have been obsessed with it. It helped to feel strange alongside them I suppose.

I'm not sure I went through typical stages either- teenage angsty years- I was too shy and scared at that point. I almost never tried to immitate female stereotypes.

I wonder just how many people believe themselves to be 'normal' or, 'average' though.

Were you cynical from a young age? I was bitter from quite early on.

 

[cemeteryismyhome]

Were you cynical from a young age? I was bitter from quite early on.

Yes, I've always been like this. My family always told me that I was born a crabby old man.

 

[WeepingWorm]

Strange doesn't necessarily carry negative meaning. Since you were in church, I don't think they meant it that way because one of the biggest precepts is not to judge. But if they did, that's on them.

 

[theboy]

Tell him
You are very normal