Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22579 – 892
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Several people noticed the featured image on the memes pages:
I dumbed it down for loading purposes but attached above are the links to the original Unsplash photo by Derrick McKinney. I found the actual doormat by searching The Google by the phrase that was written on it although I doubt I’ll buy it. But I don’t know. Stranger things have happened. I just asked Mrs. Herb and showed it to her and she likes it, so who knows? If we do get it I will show you a picture of it.
Weird has always been used in association with me. This sounds humorous on the surface and it is…now. When I was a teenager there was a lot of fighting and carrying on, most frequently between some of the young people who were related but it spilled over into other areas, as well. One time our whole youth group was called together and everybody could explain their feelings about others. Looking back across the last forty-five or so years gone by I don’t know if I agree with the approach now but at the time it seemed like the thing that needed to happen. Each of us had to stand in front of the others and tell what we had against any or all of the others.
I didn’t have anything against any of them. I had nothing to say when it was my turn. I listened to them discuss their feelings about each other, sometimes aghast and sometimes fascinated. Honestly, I think it may have done a lot to clear the air at the time with that group. But beyond all that teen angst and anger there was another theme. Every single one of them said, “Herbie, you’re a really nice guy. I don’t have anything against you, really, but you’re just so weird.”
At first, it upset me, of course, but since they all said virtually the same thing, I decided to go to the dictionary and see what it said. “…relating to the supernatural or strange or unconventional.” That actually made me feel a lot better. I mean, I knew what supernatural was. I had recently received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and that is as supernatural as a human being can come to. I had seen many mighty works of God already. Supernatural sounded cool to me. I guessed that they were jealous. Strange? Unconventional? Oh, yeah. I had no intention or desire to be like everybody else. Especially my peers. My good friends were always the outcasts and oddballs, anyway. I decided then that I would embrace my weirdness and wear it as a badge. Sure, there were bumps in the road and it didn’t happen all at once but after that incident, I had a kind of pride inside of me. Which is, of course, a very weird reaction to such a thing.
Comments
20 responses to “Streak 30 & A Weird Little Story”
What a beautiful post. I just love this. And please be weird and your fans will love you all the same or even more. You remind me of once in school, a teacher forced us to criticize a person who’s about to be promoted to some school position–I’ve already forgotten what it was about. Everybody was scared of offending this person, but everybody had to say something to oblige the teacher. So we picked the most petty and insignificant things to say about this person, like he looked at mirrors too many times a day, or he once gave an ungentle comment about a stray cat… The was also a comment that he didn’t know how to tell a joke and had done so unsuccessfully. At the time, we all think it was an innocuous comment, but now I realized that in America, this comment can be considered a worst comment for a person. I should write a post about this. Thank you for inspiring me. You are such a source of inspiration.
Thank you so much for your kindness!
Weirdness is a super power. And it seems to have given you x-ray vision into the soul of how to touch people with a truly wonderful life earned story. I Love it.
I apologize that I somehow missed this comment. A late thank you for the kind words.
I’ve always thought weird is good – so embrace it!
Thank you!
I’m a fellow weird person. I assume you knew that already.
Most of my friends are. The so-called “normal” ones are the weirdest.
It’s who you are and makes you special
Thank you, amiga!
Well then, no wonder we connect..fellow weirdo 😁👍 Most definitely not the same kind of weird, but still weird.
Weird is individualism. I had to learn that.
My kids call it You Be You But it comes out to there is no weird, I am just who I am and that’s it. Love me or leave me
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Laugh A While
Yes. I learned that weird is kind of just individualism.
In your case, your “individualism” is that you’re much smarter than most people, and you’re much more kind-hearted than most as well.
Aww…
May I join your weird club? I am pretty sure I qualify. It’s a lot easier being weird now that I’m
over 60 than it was when I was under 20. Or maybe that just comes from practice.
You are more than welcome to join, my friend. When you get older you realize you don’t need to care what everyone thinks about you.
Bravo! From one weirdo to another, apparently!
I’m in good company!