Contrarian, weird, crazy, and what not.
I don't appreciate monsoon, but that doesn't mean I'm pessimistic. I like drenching my body, soul and mind in the rain, and I love petrichor, but I do not love the gloom the season brings with itself.
I love the sun. I find it intriguing, and can relate to it. I love it's magnificence and the power it signifies. But, that doesn't mean that I hold this view only to stand out.
I may not love chocolate, or order the dish everyone loves to order, and I am not a fan of mango, that is considered the king of fruits.
I may not love staring at the faces of my co workers when I don't have work, and that clearly doesn't symbolise my laziness or inability to appreciate things.
I may not be your type, but that doesn't mean I'm weird, because I may be what others find unusual, but my caliber ranges far from your reach.
I'm not clingy if I notice too much, and certainly not finicky if I can outperform you.
If you have an issue with the way I am, it's better you felt uncomfortable, because I'm done feeling out of place, and being reflected as a misfit, because I refuse to accept the absurd confinement the human race calls norms, and my obscurity to be weirdness.
All my life I was told I am different. Sometimes it was appreciated, sometimes not so much. I was told I had energy unparalleled, sometimes appreciated, other times not. Some people tell me how much they admired me, some said I couldn’t be understood. Ever since I was a child, I was told being different is good. In school, I was told different people tend to make better lives for themselves. In movies, I was shown that the protagonist is always, well, different. These notions influenced my perspective towards life, making me crave the feeling of being different. Having said that, I was never treated like I was different, challenging my notion of me being “different”. However, sometime back I realized that I was never treated like I was different because no one wanted me to know how different I am. Every time something nice happened to me, every time I said something exceptional, people tried to normalize how exceptional these things were. That is when I cou...
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