“People our age want to be unique and weird” wrote the author of a thread around the ideas and aspirations of the younger end of our demography. Sure they do. I did. I thought I was (I wasn’t.)

But for most it’s ‘phase’ and they quickly grow out of it. Or have it steam-pressed out of them, especially at work.

Funny thing is, wishing for something you already have - there’s only one you (as Crass would yell at you) - is pretty weird for starters. Not recognising you already are out there is the bit I find odd. Amplifying what makes you, you, that’s got to be good. And as a result, let other worry (themselves) whether you’re weird. You don’t need to.

When you get old you’ll not rue on if you missed out on being the oddball. Worrying about it now will only make you make less of yourself, so maybe leave the views of other people to go hang. All that wind will just blow itself out and you’ll still have the unique and wonderful you.

Any road, grab yourself a copy of Rebecca Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost (hat-tip to Maria Popova’s https://www.themarginalian.org for reminding me about this) for far better wordcraft on this than my whittling.

And the point of all this speculating on weirdness and self? The creative services business used to be full of weird people (whether actually so or just facading - is that a thing? Facading? Seems like it should be) but someone on a thread was bemoaning the lack of craziness in agencies nowadays. Can’t say I’m exactly longing for some aspects of that, nor the faux ‘you don’t need to me mad to work here…etc.’ nonsense, but without it things get bland real quick.

Here’s to oddness and being the nail that sticks out.

Anyway, we get an extra hour this Sundaywith the clocks being re-set for winter. Will try and do something weird with with that time and report back.