Have you ever felt excluded? Did you scramble to fit in again to avoid being left out?
Or take it as an opportunity to see what your own heart and mind was about?
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Ep. 443 - Happy Outcast
We begin as always
with the Happy Creed.
We believe in Happy,
in Balance and Growth,
of being Mindful and Grateful,
Compassionate and Understanding.
Yowza
Haha
My Happy Friends!
I was a popular kid when I was very young and super cute,
But that all went away as I grew up awkward and weird,
My ability to make friends disappeared making me destitute,
And leaving me open to bullying, loneliness and all the things I feared.
I fought against it as best I could, of course, trying to make friends on the sly,
If I could just get people away from the crowds, I thought, they’d see I was cool,
But it never lasted, the peer pressure was just too strong for them to defy,
Something that lost its power over me as a general rule.
If nothing you do has any effect on how others treat you, then you’re free,
I could dress how I liked, act how I liked, and be who I liked,
It didn’t change the frequency of the bullying, just the ammo they could use on me,
But it stopped hitting the same way it once had--my fear and anger no longer spiked.
Oddly, it was also a relief to not have to conform anymore,
Conformity didn’t help and nonconformity didn’t hurt,
So I chose nonconformity, which is quite a thing to explore,
There’s a freedom in being a Happy Outcast out in the cold and down in the dirt.
I’m not saying it’s ideal by any means, community is very meaningful to folks,
Myself included, but when that’s not an option, finding out who you are alone
Is an important discovery to achieve even if it’s just the broad strokes,
It can grant you self-confidence beyond what you may previously have known.
Have you ever felt excluded? Did you scramble to fit in again to avoid being left out?
Or take it as an opportunity to see what your own heart and mind was about?
Haha
Yowza
