Perks of being Quirky

~ Gottfried

My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem but they really don’t know me. There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do. A good rule to remember about life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain. 

Being called weird is like being called limited edition. Meaning you’re something people don’t see that often. Remember that. I used to just crastinate. But I got so good, I went pro. Be like a postage stamp, stick to a thing until you get there. 

I’m not superstitious, but I’m a little stitious. When in doubt, look intelligent. You’re only as good as your last haircut. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra. And age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you are cheese. 

The man that says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him. It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes. I think sleeping was my problem in school. If school had started at 12 noon, I’d have graduated top of my class every year.

Being a little weird is just a natural side-effect of being awesome. If you’re being weird around someone, it means you are actually comfortable with that person. Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and follow your inner child. 

Mirrors don’t talk, and luckily for us, they don’t laugh either. Be the weird you want to see in the world. The trick is to not let people know how weird you are until it’s too late for them to back out. And then they’re stuck with you. Life is pleasant, Death is peaceful…

It’s the transition that’s troublesome

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

32 thoughts on “Perks of being Quirky”

  1. First oF All Mr Gottfried
    Love the Word Play
    Yes Keep The Brains
    of Others Working for

    Play ThiS WaY

    Other than That
    I Know No Stranger
    As THere is No one
    Stranger Than me i Know

    of at
    Least Hehe

    Hmm It is the Eccentrics
    Who Are Making THeir
    Way Most in Financial
    Riches on Tik Tok and
    SucH As That It’s A New

    World Where One May Escape
    the 9-5 Workplace That Demands
    Conformity of Khaki Pants and Polo Shirts

    True my UNiFoRM Hasn’t Always Been
    Various Cultural Memed T-Shirts and Shorts

    Dear Lord Wore those Khaki Long Pants With
    Government Insignia On Polo Shirts For Years

    On End of
    Behind the
    Screen Stress
    In the Demands of
    Conformity of Fitting
    in the Discipline of Working
    For the Military for 25 Years

    Dear Lord Now I’m a Mix of Ferris Bueller Forrest
    Gump Napoleon Dynamite and Strangely Enough Folks
    Have Compared me to Buddha, Yoda, And Hmm Even the
    Jesus Dude And Oh Dear Lord How Cringy even a “Perfect

    Definition
    of God” Still
    on the Online
    Record Specifically
    For Coming Out of the
    DarK and Creating LiGHT

    Of Course It Was Just All
    Metaphors Like all the Rest
    of the Words Humans Use to
    Approximate The Essence of
    Our Individual Different and
    Similar Realities too It would

    Be Nice to Be Compared to
    Michael Jackson Moon Walking
    Yet Rather Spiral Like Planets

    Orbiting Stars Yes Walking on
    Water is Basically Antique ThiS WaY

    On Top of that at 250 Pounds It’s Not
    Likely I’ll ever Meet the ‘Weigh-in’ of
    Michael Jackson

    Or Any Other
    Ballet Dancer

    Hehe Let’s

    Face it I’m Just Weird

    True Key is Owning
    All of Who You Are

    In Integrity and

    Never Selling Our
    Soul For Power to
    Abuse the Marginalized
    Among Us Oh Dear THere
    I Go Again Doing the’JeSuS’ Dude

    Dear Lord if Only More People Believed

    in Loving One
    Another With
    (Really Doin’ IT)
    No Exclusion
    Dancing Like
    Napoleon Dynamite
    And Michael Jackson

    Taking a Day Off Every
    Day in Play Like Ferris Bueller
    Just Relaxing Meditating Sitting
    Under A Tree Like Buddha Doing
    The Tao Every Day Like Yoda
    With Laser Focus on What

    We Do Like Forrest Gump

    Thing Is Mr Gottfried

    I Refuse to Do Fiction

    So i Do the Real me

    No Holding Back after
    All those Decades Trying
    to Fit in a CuLTuRE That
    Was and STiLL iS More Bat

    S
    Crazy
    Than Ever
    Before It’s True

    I’m not Fit For Society

    So Now They Get Used
    to the Different of me Slowly

    Very Slowly

    Like a Frog
    Coming to
    Boil in Water

    Except i Ain’t
    the One Turning
    Up the Heat Cool

    Hehe as a Cat on a
    Hot Tin Roof Or In the
    Snow With Very Few Clothes

    Yep We Got the
    Big 10 Inches
    in Our Little
    Town for the
    Record for the
    State and We Had
    it Before With 4 Inches

    Yet Not Unlike the Guinness
    World Record Book For the Most
    Churches Per Capita of any Locality
    in the World Why Go Small When You

    Can Do
    EPiCaLLY
    Strange as
    One ‘Village
    Idiot’ No One
    Is Likely Ever
    to Forget telling
    Their Grand Children
    About the Once Living Legend

    Of A Fool
    Which Is Just
    Another Word
    For Owning
    Massive Amounts
    of Relative Free Will

    Is Dancing Singing Free Now Everywhere
    Ya Go Like a Broadway Play Weird it Can’t

    Be Much Stranger than an Older Dude
    Swaying to the YMCA With His Mini-me
    Beside Him Jumping Up and Down With Wild

    Abandon

    However

    I Don’t Need
    Any Coin With
    my Face On it Hehe to Be

    THE REaL

    me
    hehe…

    Weird

    Just Plain Weird
    Yet Fun aS Hell iN Heaven too…

    Life’s too Short Not to Dive in the Deep End

    And
    Not
    Float
    to the Top..:)

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      1. “Oh, hi Mr Quirky

        You embody this post”

        Hehe Mr Gottfried as You’ve
        Probably Already Heard Moving
        to A Much More Advanced Catholic
        Private School Paid for by my Paternal

        (The One Who Married the Irish Born
        Catholic Priest Then the Jewish Cop)

        Grandmother Called ‘Blessed Sacrament’
        in Tallahassee The Nun Teachers Awarded
        Me a Certificate in Second Grade As Yes

        Wittiest Child

        Yet there was no Google Search Engine
        To Find Out then if that Meant Smart

        Or Funny And i Was too ‘ADHD Lazy’

        to Walk to the Library

        To Find Out
        Or Ask anyone
        Else about it So i Retained
        A Witty Question For Years to Come

        “showing or characterized by quick and inventive verbal humor”

        Okay i Just Looked it Up and the First Search Result Describes
        Witty Above Yet Considering i Didn’t Speak until 4 and
        Stuttered my Way Through Many Years After that

        i Suppose it was
        in the Delivery

        of What i Was
        Trying to Pick
        Out of my Brain

        Yet i’ll Never Really Know For Sure Hehe

        Okay Back to Quirky as Defined
        By Cambridge Dictionary Online

        “What does quirky mean in a person?
        unusual in an attractive and interesting way”

        So i Guess Mr Gottfried All that’s Left to Do
        is Thank You For Embodying a Post for me With

        SMiLes
        And Yes
        See Ya Sooner
        Than Soon Now True too…

        It’s True my Wife Worked at the
        Local News Paper That i Wrote
        Sports Columns For the Military
        Bowling Center Tournaments And

        League Winners and Such as that

        Yes Back When i Was only ‘Clark
        Kent’ And my Wife Was ‘Lois

        Lane’ So
        Quirky
        Then

        For Sure
        Yet True Occasionally
        i Find a Phone Booth Now

        Dial It Up Dance Sing

        True “i Didn’t Come Here
        To Show You What’s Gonna
        Happen Next Just What is Possible Now

        In a World Without Them And Their Limitations”

        And i Didn’t Even Need a Cape or Other Clothes to Do
        it Yep as Usual

        Hehe
        Naked
        Enough
        Whole Complete…

        Nope Didn’t Need
        Even A ‘Landline Phone’

        to Phone
        HoMe
        Within
        With SMiLes..:)

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  8. Quirky is the secret sauce, isn’t it? Who wants vanilla when you can have rocky road with gummy bears? This post nails it—being quirky isn’t just a ‘perk,’ it’s your golden ticket to standing out in a sea of same-same. Loved how you broke it down with humor and charm—10/10 would recommend this pep talk to anyone feeling ‘too different.’ Keep waving that quirky flag high!

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