not-really-weird-people?

I don't hate the world or anyone (haha), I just think that when we say, post, or we try to portray a word/ something we should have the knowledge about it. I had used this word repeatedly in the past not knowing its true meaning and so here I am now making a blog about it.

I often see post of different people around the social networking sites in the web showing off  what they call "weirdness", for some point in time I'm annoyed by this people because they are TRYING HARD TO LOOK WEIRD not knowing that they just look like everybody else (trying to look DIFFERENT) because of their way of thinking, acting, etc. most of the time it will come into my intuition that I know people who can be classified as a real "weirdo" or people who are NOT EXERTING EFFORT TO LOOK WEIRD.

I think most of the fruit of this generation misunderstood the whole meaning of the word "WEIRD" because of the wrong commercialization of the media and the web today. For example is the picture below, which is for me is "CREEPY" and not weird at all.

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According to Merriam-Webster the word "WEIRD[1]" is first known before 12th century that is defined by the following words: "SOOTHSAYER" or someone who makes predictions about what is going to happen in the future; "DESTINY" or the things that someone or something will experience in the future; and "FATE" or a power that is believed to control what happens in the future. And also the word "WEIRD[2]" can also mean "ODD" or happening in a way that is not planned or regular; and "FANTASTIC" or  so extreme as to challenge belief :  unbelievable; broadly :  exceedingly large or great.

Meaning to say, the word "WEIRD" is a word related to witchcraft/magical and not to something most of the people today tries to portray; an idealist, radical, cool, excellent, extreme, etc.

I think instead of using the word WEIRD to show off your-not-really-WEIRD-side, TRY NOT PUTTING YOURSELF INTO WORD/S, I believed that everything that are in existence today are wonderful in their different ways.

For the word "WEIRD", I advice the following readings for further knowledge;

http://www.learnersdictionary.com/definition/weird

http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?book=Student&va=weird

see you around not-really-weird-people :)