Weird

Human beings are often very weird (no not Trump weird). We have hang ups, doubts, compulsive behaviors and we top that off with a tendency to be massively self-critical. Small wonder any of us have our sanity intact.

If you have lived long enough you may have noticed that your weirdness fits right in especially in this age of social media where it is celebrated rather than hidden away from public view. In the past it was simply kept behind closed doors but it was very much there.

I have continued to remove much of the stigma I carried for a whole host of things which was only made worse through having received very rigid religious instruction over my youth. Now that I have entered my 60's I have a very lucid and realistic view of how truly nuts the human race is and I mean that in a good way. Many of us have eccentricities that are hardly worth worrying about and yet people tend to be ashamed about them as if they were hurting others with them. The amount of fear and insecurity we carry is often unwarranted and so we remain trapped in the idea that we will be deemed less loveable because of them.

Imagine living our entire lives with fears about things being discovered by people whose opinion is entirely irrelevant.

Kinda depressing.