“You can’t get to be a charming eccentric in old age without being weird in youth.”
~ Stacie, Idiosyncratic Daydream
Pull up your striped socks, slip into your funkiest shoes, check your wild red hair in the mirror, and head out the door to spend the day making people gawk. Or … say what no one else seems willing to say, offer the solution that expands minds, notice the thing out of place that makes all the difference.
Whether we’re weird on the inside or the outside, or both, those of us who are unusually sensitive can help make sensitivity and uniqueness more normal. That’s a paradox, I know.
As an aged eccentric in training, as a rebel with a cause, think of yourself as being on a mission. What’s your mandate? To strut your stuff, to desensitize our culture to sensitivity. Another paradox. How lovely.
Imagine the scope of glorious weirdness expanding to include everyone. What a wonderful world that would be.
“Allah loves wondrous variety.”
~ Azeem, Robin Hood – Prince of Thieves
Flickr photo: Free Girl in Colorful Polkadots, by D Sharon Pruitt / Pink Sherbet Photography
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