“Corb, what’s something thats weird about me?”
“Whats something that’s NOT weird about you grace venning??”
GUESS WHAT! NEWSFLASH!
IM WEIRD! SO TOTALLY COMPLETELY WILDLY WEIRD! AND I WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING!
I’m quirky! And eccentric!
I don’t usually like to match my clothes! Life is better with mix matched socks! My favorite one is my rainbow sock and I prefer to wear it on my left foot!
I don’t really brush my hair! Oh and I got bangs in Thailand! They’re a curly mullet mess!
I laugh loud and I laugh hard. Borderline cackle when I think somethings really funny.
I dance. Alot. Always. In grocery stores. Bus stops. Showers. Public bathrooms. The middle of the road. With people. Without people. If there is music, I’m dancing. And when there’s not. Im dancing still.
I got sick off of raw chicken nuggets one time so now when I cook my own chicken I char the heck out of it….. just in case. (:
I’ve always been like this! And i’ve almost always hated myself for it! I have spent years wishing, and sometimes even praying that I could be different. More “normal”. And that if I was more like the other girls, then maybe boys would like me. Choose me. I’d self-evaluate and think that they don’t like me because I’m just too weird. Or I laugh to loud. Or any number of things I thought was undesirable. And that thats the reason I didn’t have fast friends when I transferred high-schools. It HAD to be because i don’t dress like them. Or because I don’t wear makeup. Because I don’t even remotely fit into social norms!
But the truth of the matter is, there’s going to be a man one day who loves my loud laugh! And who hears his favorite song in Kroger and will grab my hand without a second thought. And we will dance. Together. And that The Lord knew one day I’d decide that I’m gonna wear my funky clothes because i feel stellar in them! No matter what others think! Finally choosing to be unapologetically me! And that when I have to raise an outrageous sum of money to live on the mission field for 9 months($15,000), I’d be able to sell all my crazy weird clothes! And girls from all over the state would drive to buy them! And i’d raise $1500 in one day. Off of those clothes that undoubtedly make me a total weirdo. And then that the Lord would gift me with dozens of friends who not only love the funny things about me, but have funny things about them too! And we love each other all the more for it!
SO! The root of why I have written all these thoughts of mine down! Is because at 19 years old, the Lord has totally redefined “Weird” for me! TO BE WEIRD IN THIS WORLD IS NOT BAD. ITS ACTUALLY THE COMPLETE OPPOSITE! ITS SO STINKIN’ COOL AND BEAUTIFUL AND LOVELY! To love every bit of you that our perfect creator made you to be. Do you not think that God knew He was going to create me with every single quirky piece of me? The Lord created us fearfully and wonderfully (Psalm 139:14)! Perfectly! He didn’t create mistakes within us. He’s not of this world! So why would we ever try to lessen beautiful bits and pieces of us to fit into a mold of this world we were never meant to fit??!
Raise your hand if you’re just about fed up with people using the word weird in a negative connotation!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lets become the generation that are complete and total weirdos and love it!
Lets become the generation that stops trying to be what the world wants us to be!
Lets be the generation that is unapologetically us!
CHEERS! TO THE WEIRDOS OF THIS WORLD! IM WITH YOU! AND I LOVE YOU! AND IM STOKED WERE IN THIS TOGETHER!
