Freak

This evening I met a kid who is very excited for the freshman year of his college experience (the party/alcohol/frat/fun kind). He was a bit of a blow hard and (I thought) a tool. Of course, he is rooming with another kid who is the exact opposite of him, in attitude, bedtime, and hair color. Apparently, the roommate goes to bed early and doesn't like to drink or party (which sounds just like me, save for my inability to get to bed until 2AM). The kid is not fond of his roommate, and some name calling was involved in his description of the guy.

Indeed, I've seen the roommate, and marked him as being a bit unusual. I'm guilty of judging other people just by looking at them--I think we all are. There are other students on campus who act out of the norm, and I've made remarks about them too. These are the people who dance oddly in a group, and sing at awkward times, and have a general stigma of "weirdness."

And I've been a part of such groups, those ones who act how they please, and happily wag their heads at the cool kids who are too cool to fully enjoy the event.

But these are often the people who seem to be having the most fun. They band together in awkwardness, or in common interest, or in unconventionality, and they have fun. Harming no one else--except those who are threatened by "the other"-- the unusuals get the most out of experience however they can, by dancing, or providing commentary, or whatever it takes.

So if someone is at least enjoying himself, even in a nontraditional way, what right have we to judge? If he has a different idea of what is fun, cool, or fashion, what's our business? People judge anyway, and so do I, but we're probably not having as much fun doing it.