Weird: How do you act in a World of "Normal"?

This topic goes around fairly often these days. This idea of, “what does normal even mean?” Or “isn’t everyone weird in their own way?” And although people will champion this idea of “be different” because of people like Einstein and Jobs, however, when it comes down to it, people will judge people that are “weird” they’ll feel insecure if they’re called weird.

That poses the first question? Should you be weird? I mentioned Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs they were pretty weird. Einstein’s most famous picture was him sticking his tongue out, and he died early from a heart attack because he told the doctor “I think prolonging human life is stupid.” Not the most normal of people. Steve Jobs, he was... this man didn’t wear shoes, this man went on strange diets, and the list goes on. Yet they were successful, well known, so people refer to these examples and others that fit the survivability bias meaning that it fits the narrative they’re trying to set.

So, to actually answer the question I posed, what should you be? Weird? Normal? A cow? I think that the answer to this question is... it doesn’t matter. Be whoever you want to be, be whatever you want to be. The words normal, the words weird, they don’t matter at all. However, don’t take yourself too seriously, that’s what makes the kids in high school you don’t want to talk to go too far. If someone calls you weird or whatever, laugh and don’t care. If you get defensive and push people away, then you’re the kid that’s “too” weird.

All in all, just be whatever you want, preferably not a bad person but I’m not yucking anyone’s yum. Creation and evolution, whoever you are, evolve.