What's a weirdo to do?

I do not "fit in". This is not a lament, just a statement of fact.  When I was younger I thought that I was missing something, that there was something wrong with me, but as I got older I realized my differences were actually my strengths.

I do not see the world the way most people around me do.

I am gobsmacked by how easily privileged, well educated folk can turn away from anyone in need, or in pain.

I find the ease with which we divide ourselves into " us and them " to be quite terrifying.

I don't want to live anywhere, where the abuse of children or animals is okay.

I don't understand how you forget.

I don't understand.

I see the world differently.

It took me so long to realize that that was okay and I had lost it for a while, but no more.

 My intention for this New Year is to piss people off, shake things up, challenge, wave my freak flag high, and get all up in your face with my differences.

"They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn't.I never painted dreams. I painted my reality."~Frida Kahlo

photo by Rodney Smith