I learnt the word really late in my life - 'Weird'. It was my engineering college room-mate who used this as an all purpose descriptive word for all the good - bad - non-average things in life. May be that is the reason, I've found the word indispensable and very very attractive in the following years. No conversation could be interesting without its mention. No person could be truly appealing, unless there was some 'weirdness' attached. Of course, there were other words - Strange, Odd, Eccentric, Unusual, Abnormal, Bizarre but none of them had the wildness or the impact or the perfect mix of sobriety and sluttiness that 'Weird' has. It has 'it'. If I was to carry on - I would delve into the whispering melody that it offers and yet a crisp and indifferent undertone that it eventually takes. But that will be so verbose, that it will suck all the honesty out of this post.
Anyway! if ever a word had the power of guiding a life, if ever it could influence critical decisions, if a word ever had the potential to become more than just a word, it was 'Weird' for me. I realized that it could take all the ugliness of an unconventional, inexplicable, meaningless action/person/thing/event/phase/feeling and still appear 'cool' and 'harmless'. No wonder, I kept falling for it over and over again. And now when my new room mate from Montfort keeps signing this word for every other peculiar thing (after I told her what it means), I can see she too has fallen in love with the word!
