Paige Joanna

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Don’t Loose Your Inner Weirdo!

  • Paige
  • August 11, 2016
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Recently I have been finding myself having to justify things I do or enjoy and quite frankly why should I have to. It got me thinking about how we are all so different and unique in our own beautiful ways and that’s a great thing. Over the years I always cared about what people thought of me and slowly I started realising that actually it doesn’t matter at all. 

I’m just going to put it out there, I know I am weird but I actually find it really amusing when people pick up on it (it almost makes me want to play on it more). For example, I get random delivery’s to work like colourful wigs, flower crowns with little ponies on and craft materials and I get a variety of reactions. Some people laugh and say it’s amazing and others have literally told me I am ‘an official weirdo’ (Sorry Liv if you are reading this). Because of my blog I get to express myself and my interest in front of an audience of like minded people, so I tend to forget sometimes that not everyone really understands what I am like.
If I make pompoms at the pub or on public transport I get glared at and even had people coming over to ask what I am doing. This sort of thing used to scare me so much that I wouldn’t do things in public that people would consider ‘quirky’ or ‘weird’ because I was so concerned with being ‘normal’.
WHAT EVEN IS NORMAL? Honestly there is no such thing. I personally think there is a different spectrum of creativity, uniqueness and interests and everyone overlaps in some way. If you happen to be at one end of the quirky spectrum and someone is judging you for it they are most likely on the completely other side, so far away from the things you like and feel. It’s not a bad thing but just learning to smile, laugh and embrace that you can be different and take it as an amusing aspect to life makes it easier when getting judged.
What I am trying to say is don’t loose your inner ‘weirdo’. Let your self expression and quirkiness free and stop trying to contain it. Sing aloud in public (like me when riding a Borris bike through Hyde park), have people stare at you, craft things in public, go out and paint, wear that multi-coloured hat or pom-pom head band, JUST GO FOR IT. Life is far too short to give a shit what people think and even if they do say something about it, smile and wave and then throw glitter at them.. 
I don’t know, I am just all too fed up with being and feeling judged and this is my blog post to say, fuck it. I am me, I am this weirdo and I bloody enjoy being this way. Come and join in on the frolicking or forever judge and let this idea of ‘normal’ take over every aspect of life. 
(Before you think this is a sponsored post, it really isn’t. I am just passionate about being weird and enjoying my life to the fullest. Hope you do too)!
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