Recently I shared a personal story on social media about how I discovered my superpower.
How being different. Feeling like an outsider is the very thing fueling my fire today.
In fact, your weirdness may very well be the secret behind your purpose in this lifetime.
This story was so well received it deserves to be shared with you here too.
Here is my story:
My Superpower Story
“You are a strange child.”
I heard a friend’s mother say about me.
I was about five or six.
To this day I can’t recall why, because in my world it was normal.
In fact, everyone else was strange and I was trying to wrap my head around why others couldn’t see the things I saw or know the things I just knew.
Sometimes I still can’t get my head around it.
The thing is…I was different from a lot of my friends.
I preferred one-on-one interaction, rather than groups. I still do.
It took me a while before opening up as I felt out to see if it was safe to share more of me.
In my teenage years my friends were talking about boys.
They had posters on their walls of actors and hot singers.
I was bored with it.
I got a few posters to fit in. I thought it was the done thing. All the rage.
One of the boys at high school bought me a chocolate for Valentine’s for a few years in a row.
It wasn’t until several years later I understood why!
Clueless.
I had no interest in boys romantically (at least not then).
Or clothes.
Or being cool.
I loved when the boys brought snakes or scorpions to school.
Marveled at the big owls just outside the school hallway windows.
Spent hours outside trying to make friends with the birds In the garden.
Cried when I stepped on a bee, because it was going to die (never mind the sting).
I often tended to lean into the outsiders…the other ‘weird’ ones…because I could feel them.
My heart broke for one in particular. He often got in trouble.
I never understood how the teachers couldn’t see what was going on…and do something other than break him further.
So my mother often made an extra lunch for me to take to school (even when she could barely afford to feed us)…because his father was an alcoholic and he came to school hungry.
Gave it to him quietly, as he clearly didn’t want others to know.
Spent time with the boy who was being raised by a single mother and Freddie Mercury was his icon.
Went for tea and cake with the elderly lady up the road, whose husband had passed away. (Although he was still very much around).
As I got to university, being ‘strange’ made me interesting and alluring – and I owned it. As you do when you are 18.
Granted I was still hanging out with the ‘odd balls.’
If I set my mind to something, it would appear. I trusted things to just work out.
I decided it was time to have a boyfriend (in hindsight, mostly to keep up with the ‘normal’).
A week later I manifested my first boyfriend.
For a few years I went down the path of exploring ‘normal,’ because my ‘strange’ seemed to scare others away – men mostly.
I guess it’s not that much fun dating a psychic if you have things to hide.
However, I always came back to the ‘strange’ me.
It’s my happy place. My happy me.
For sure, as a child it sometimes felt challenging to be an outsider. The weird one. The strange one never fully feeling as if she belonged anywhere.
However, as I grew up I came to realise this is one of my superpowers.
To help others know they are not alone…or weird for that matter.
As with just about anything in life, I can now see with hindsight the people who saw me and encouraged me in embracing my weirdness.
And I still hang out with the ones who were/are the odd ones out.
The ones busting through systems.
Having weird experiences.
Making their own way. Following their own path.
Change makers. Dream creators. Freedom seekers and lovers of sovereignty.
The only difference: They are now my ‘normal.’
Embracing your superpower
If there is one message to take away from this story today, then I feel it is this:
Were you, or are you still, a little bit ‘strange’.
The weird one…the odd one out…figuring out where and how you belong.
I see you. I feel you…and I am here cheering you on in connecting with your happy you.
Because that thing about you which makes you different. Your uniqueness.
This is your superpower!
P.S. Did you know ‘weird’ originally meant supernatural? Some food for thought.
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