Weird.

I am actually not a huge fan at all of the word. I don't know for certain but I don't think you would really find it in my vocabulary. I heard of story of a friend who had really peculiar opinions of strange things so I thought I would write about one of my own.

Weird: involving or suggesting the supernatural, unearthly, uncanny, fantastic, bizarre.

I got this definition from dictionary.com and was actually surprised about what I found. The way that many people use this word doesn't really match what it actually means. When I hear people use this word the first thing that comes to mind is that, that person thinks what ever is weird is not normal. Now although no one can actually describe what normal is within each culture there is a certain set of standards that the population follow and when one steps out of those standards they step out of the norm.

I think what frustrates me even more is when people use the word weird when they see people do different things because they are from a different culture. For certain these things are not supernatural (well for the most part) and yes they may be out of our North America norm, but it does not mean that it is out of their norm. When people do things differently we often tend to say that they are weird. Looking down on them for stepping out of the norm. Instead we should find ourselves doing either a) asking the question why they do it or b) trying it ourselves.

Now this is only one opinion about one word but in my world simply words can make a world of difference.