posted February 10, 2005 08:27 AM              

I'm looking forward to it, but I anticipate that some will see me as extremely weird. I was eccentric as a child and nothing much has changed in that department. I like to tell myself I'm confident about who I am. Just now and again, though, I wonder whether I am really sane. I seem to FEEL things so much more intensely than other people do - say, I will go into detail about the concepts behind my art, and I can tell when people understand it or not, and usually they can't.

I have recently made a friend who is great to talk to about all that stuff, but I really do think, when it comes down to it, that I'm even crazier than he is.

posted February 10, 2005 08:37 AM            

AT, I know you don't like Saggies but I love Aries

posted February 10, 2005 12:58 PM              

Nice to see you. I would like to respond to this. I have a child with sun/asc/uranus all conjunct in the 1st house. Eccentric, yes - but also very creative and bright. I think the teenage years are very tough for eccentric people - or rather, those who are not part of the GROUP.

In my experience, I have found that while teenage years can be tough, many "eccentric" types get a super big pay-off as they age. After high school, the group mentality is no longer held in high regard. I have seen so many poor souls completely fall apart when no longer part of this built-in group.

This might be evident to you at your HS reunion. Time just runs out for some of the "regular" types. Your time is now. Good to stand out and be different and get noticed. Good for you.

posted February 10, 2005 02:54 PM              

I have always gone for the option of "being different". I guess I realized that I would never fit in, so at the age of 12, I made up my mind to be DELIBERATELY different and it somehow just stuck. I do have a bit of a quirky view on life, some of the artwork I am doing at the moment is perhaps the only artwork of its type that is being done in the entire world. The only trouble is, it's not commercial!!!
It's interesting how people react to their ecentric peers as they get older. Either they were always very different from one and have diverged even more, or were similarly loopy and have grown even more understanding.

Thank you, Key!! I came back in the end. Couldn't keep away from LL.