Standing Out

(this is my essay i wrote 4 school. idgaf about school so i like to be fun and unprofessional and annoying when i actually do schoolwork.)

Standing Out

I personally think standing out is pretty cool and you should do it. Go put on that weird looking hat you have in your closet right now. I’ll wait. I will uhh… expand on my arguments while I wait. You better be wearing the hat when I’m done.

I wanna get the negatives- or rather, negative, because I could only think of one (seriously, I wrote down two points under negatives in my notes and one of them is just “umm idk”)- out of the way: negative attention. Normal people who can’t handle seeing someone who looks a little wacky™ can and will stare at you. Which, I can say from personal experience, is both uncomfortable and annoying and I really wish they’d stop doing that hey guys can you STOP doing that?? And I’M supposedly the weird one… But I mean jeez, it’s not like you have to just let them do that. I’m not exactly saying you should strap them to the electric chair and watch in glee as they beg for mercy you’ll never grant them for snickering at your weird looking hat, but like, if I see you telling them to shut their mouths in a bit of an impolite manner… snitches get stitches, you know?

Now, the positives. So being yourself is really good for you, actually. Self-expression is exactly what it sounds like, people!!! You express yourself so that your self doesn’t have to hunch up in a little ball inside the gross, icky skin-flesh-and-bones-bag that is your body and rot away until the skin-flesh-and-bones-bag eventually does too. To me at least, that sounds a whole lot worse than getting stared at by teenage boys who shrivel up and die like a vampire (sorry vampires you’re way cooler than them) in sunlight if you like, call them gay or something. The way you dress reflects who you are on the inside. SOOOO if you dress boring, then you’re boring I guess. And I gotta say being boring is… kinda boring. OK, calm down, put down the pitchforks, I’ll say hot take before talking next time!

Anyways. UHGMghhgmfmmmm if you’re a weirdo bonkers insane in the cranium freak, the right people WILL see you and think you’re the coolest person ever. I can’t speak for everyone, but I’ve never looked at a guy wearing a plain white t-shirt, blue jeans, and some stellar white sneakers and thought “wow… I wanna be just like them.” To be fair, I don’t think that about a lot of people, but still. People don’t get inspired by unoriginality. And if you’re afraid to get hate-crimed (understandably so), find spaces made for, and created by, weirdo freaks. I promise you, weirdo freaks are the nicest people as long as you stay away from the gatekeepers who buy all their stuff from shein and temu and think they’re tough for drinking twenty beers every day at the ripe age of thirteen. You’ll know when they’re there, trust me.

So. I hope you’ve adorned your weird looking hat. I wouldn’t know, I’m writing this in the past for whoever is reading. But now you know that standing out is peak and epic and cool. wow look i put effort into a school thing hold your applause i know i know

give me good grades pls

(my english teacher did not appreciate my essay. she should really be jumping for joy that i did anything at all. also yes i have summer break now, i wrote this like a month ago and forgot i wanted to post it.)