A Statement to societal norms
I feel that people these days generally really fail to understand that something does not have to align with your worldviews to be an okay thing in the world. We've reached a point in society now where the focus seems to be on validating and finding ways to excuse everything we do as healthy choices that we can justify to the rest of the world.. or that anything we see as unhealthy is something we should always avoid.
Something can be weird, abnormal or even outright dangerous to your life... and that's just.. fine.
We don't need to have medically or socially justified reasons for doing the things that we do. We as sentient beings, should have full autonomy over our lives. Whether your passion is trains, tattoos, mountain climbing, smoking, cave diving, weight gain or even just being really good at kicking a ball around a field. Wherever you might sit on a spectrum or if you just live impulsively.. If you enjoy who you are and if you understand and accept the risks that come with what you do..
The most sound thing you can do is look at your lifestyle and say: "I know this is abnormal. I know there are risks. I have looked at reality in the eye and I’m doing it anyway because it’s my happy life."
"Normal" is nothing more than a statistical construct. But being yourself does not mean having to find a way to justify being "normal" by being both healthy and valid for doing something. You can be weird, unhealthy or just a lil bit goofy and its all perfectly okay to still just be an ordinary person living their life. You are your own validation.
We need to start being okay with people being different from each other... there's over 8 fucking billion of us now. We're going to be different from each other. We're going to fail to understand each other sometimes.. that much should be obvious. That doesn't mean we cut out, hide or shame everything that doesn't fit in the most common denominator. Especially ourselves.
"Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame" - Uncle Iroh
Let's just be honest with ourselves. If you are okay with the less comfortable parts, nobody can use it against you. You should never feel like you have to hide who you are.
Own the weirdness.
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