'Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe

After looking through some Marilyn Monroe quotes, she has officially joined the ranks of Martin Luther King Jr. and Simon Cowell in my list of role models. She was blonde but not stupid, and famous but not (excessively) shallow. In a way, I find her who-really-gives-a-damn attitude to be inspiring, as I generally tend to overthink what others think of me a lot, a habit I'm trying to break out of, just like I'm trying to break out of biting my fingernails (still not much progress on either one).

I seriously think the woman has a point. Think of it this way- would you rather to go through life unnoticed, uncared about, with absolutely no one knowing who you are, not making an impact on anybody? Or would you rather be seen, regardless of what other people say or think or see you as? Now don't get me wrong- there are some honestly terrible ways to be seen. But there are also some honestly terrible ways to be not seen as well. At the end of the day, the person who was different from everybody else is the person who is noticed. So it's a shame that in our day having even the slightest variation from the crowd condemns you, in a way.

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The Beginning

There are two sides to me.

If you knew me in person, you might like me, or you might find me annoyingly optimistic. Depends how you feel about people who always smile and look on the bright side of things- even when you didn't know that practically flunking math even had a bright side.

It seems like half the world's population is saying this about themselves, so I'll just confirm what you already know- I'm not so pleasant on the inside. Believe it or not, there actually are people that I hate. And no, one of those people isn't myself. At least I'm not that cliche.

The purpose of this blog is to "unleash" my "darker side" I guess. Not that you'd know it from the bright happy lay out or anything, but I'm honestly trying my best to avoid the cliches here. That's why I stopped myself from looking through other people's blogs and seeing what they made their first post about in an attempt to fit in- I'm starting to realize that maybe being different isn't as bad as I used to think. Besides, I'm probably not too far off the mark. I'm going to refrain from turning this into a composition as I tend to ramble, so I'll just wrap it up here.

Peace out, anyone?

EDIT: Forgot to give credit to the song my blog was named after- "The Feel Good Drag" by Anberlin. Check it out. It kicks some serious ass.