my thoughts on ‘others’:
so. something i have been noticing here on tumblr a lot lately is this ‘other-haters’ movement (i shall take credit for that term). all these haters!
answer me something. why is it (and this is a sweeping generalization) that pretty much ANYONE who would be categorized as your everyday ‘normal’ person (you know what i mean) are always such fucking haters towards anything and anyone who has a different swagger to them? i swear to fucking god himself. you people just need to accept the fact that people are, and will be whoever they want to be.
let me tell you about my world. my world is filled with open arms, and meeting new people and experiencing people for who they are and not what they look like on the exterior. who the fuck cares?! hipster or not! does it really matter? and what is your VALID reason for hating? OH WAIT! you dont have one! because let me tell you, you just look stupid. you are making yourself out to be the most undesirable person to get to know. is this how you want people thinking of you? is this how you want to be remembered?
i would fall into the other category easily. i understand that categories will forever be around and to suggest eliminating them would just be a lost cause. but let me tell you why i am me:
i love things that are natural. being outside excites me. i like to walk everywhere. im a slow walker. im a slow walker so that i can take in everything around me. here in the past couple of years i’ve come to embrace my love for the world, and life, and people because before i was just someone who feared it all. i’ve come to realize that life is exactly what you make it. i went through a phase where i did notice the people that were different than me. i feared it, and im sure i myself hated on it as well. but one day i just woke up and thought to myself, i’d spent my whole life fearing things that were different or even being a little different myself because of the back-lashes it could generate. i kept it safe. i didnt want to be like that anymore so i started focusing on myself, doing the things that i loved to do regardless of what people thought. yeah, i can be crazy, and say stupid shit, but at least im being myself. life started taking on a new meaning. and as i changed, my style changed as well. i feel that my style expresses who i am as a person: im friendly. i’m natural. i’ll talk to anyone. im a colorful person. suddenly brands and spending money on excessive things just started to turn me off. who the fuck notices a pair of $300 jeans anyway? i get noticed in thrift store jeans that i made into shorts and guess what? i just saved 300 fucking dollars! haha! but, while most ‘normal’ people drown themselves things, and material in order to feel satisfied, i drown myself a life and probably get 10,000x’s more satisfaction than anything your wallet can afford.
SO. if you want to be a bitter cold person who only feels good about themselves by putting down others then so be it. you are the one missing out. you are just throwing away opportunities to meet someone new. but just know, its people like you who are going to die one day and find your soul in an equally miserable, cold and bitter place. live your life happy, positive and open and i promise you, life will only get better.
warren
stolen and some edits by CN
