Hey you, reading this right now,
You aren't weird. There's no such thing. You might be old, young, taller or shorter than average, good at one thing or another, terrible at a different something or other, appear one way or some other way of your choosing, love someone who does not reciprocate or love no one but yourself.
You are not weird.
There is no such thing as 'weird.'
Saying so measures you only by your differences from those around you.
The only thing I can for sure call you is 'beautiful.'
You are beautiful regardless of gender or lack thereof.
You are beautiful regardless of who you love.
You take up space and you glimmer and gleam and breathe and shout and feel and speak and make what you consider mistakes.
But no.
There are no mistakes.
There are decisions and events outside of your control but no mistakes.
There are moments that hurt yourself and others but there are no mistakes.
Hold your head up and look forward.
Decide on your next course of action and step onward.
Nothing is hopeless, and to call yourself without worth is an insult. To call yourself anything less than a human deserving of love and all you can experience is worse than a crime.
There are no mistakes, and you. You. YOU EXIST. You must continue to do so as long as you can.
You aren't weird. You cannot be measured by your differences.
Continue to think and to breathe and to wonder and to experience and yes, to even do things that may hurt, as that is how you grow. That is the way of the world.
-Syla Delaney