I think that the best compliment anyone can give someone is “You’re weird!”
Sometimes weirdness can be symptomatic of pathology; sometimes people could be weird through effort because they want to maintain an identity or because they think that weird is cool.
Those kinds of weird aren’t the kind of weird I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the kind of weird that everyone really is. Weird is just a derogatory way of saying someone is unique, individual and their own person.
Everyone is weird; some are just better at hiding it than others.
The reason why I consider weirdness as a positive description is because it is often symptomatic of someone not pretending; someone not lying. It’s the taking off of the mask that causes the phenomena of weirdness in the authentically weird people.
The people who don’t have an agenda when they talk to people.
The people who aren’t trying to fit a cube into a small triangle hole.
The weirdness that’s caused from being genuine and the cessation of lying.
Throughout most people’s’ lives they are always trying to be what they think will be acceptable. They spend so much time and expend so much of their mental activity on trying to fit in that they are constantly distracted from themselves; they are constantly not doing what they want and doing what they don’t want purely because they fear the ridicule of others.
To be called weird is to be told that you’re behaviour doesn’t conform to what is arbitrarily acceptable; to be called weird is like the they-self pinning a medal on your chest for escaping the trap of conformity.
Of course the they-self – being stupid – thinks it’s insulting you but if you’re weird because you’ve realized the lack of ground that the They-self’s protean “acceptable” has you’ll see the irony.
To be called weird is to be told you figured out the puzzle…. at least some people’s weirdness is caused by such things.
Subjective insights 