Strange

Alain de Botton says that we should embrace our strangeness and if you think about it we are incredibly odd with our heads filled with strange ideas and obsessive thoughts. The trick is to embrace our strangeness with forgiving kindness while weeding out the aspects that decrease our quality of life.

At our core we are emotional creatures looking to impose rationality which is why we are so erratic. We try to restrict our suffering because without some imposition of mental discipline we would theoretically act on that natural strangeness which some indeed do.