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My mantra has always been "be yourself, only awesome".
To unpack: follow your pasions and do what you think is interesting and fun and grabs you, but don't half ass it.
If you think blimbles are cool, and you have an idea for what the coolest thing to do with them would be, go for it.

The only bad passion is the one you don't let yourself run with.

It doesn't mean follow the passions other people think are coolest, or following your pasions in the way you think others will think is the coolest.

I re-started the guitar during Covid, and I've played every day since. I'm a guitar guy now.

It turns out "re-starts" is a whole new category of guitar players, a little different than true beginners because they already have some of the basicknowledge.

My partner is into cycling (gravel), as am I but not to this extent. For the past few months it's been about 90% of our conversation. It's very cute, and I'm very happy for them (and know the laser-focus will pass) so I engage with all of it, but man can it be hard some days. 😄 (Also happy it's a super healthy focus)

I do that by keeping to myself, having fun when alone listening to music from 70's, which is the greatest era in music

Me and my daughter dressing up as Victorian ladies with our dog in his Victorian suit taking photos at an antique railroad station hurt no one and a bunch of tourists and the railroad museum curator actually loved it. We make the best memories and I have absolutely zero reason to be a normal person

How about the fat nerd with his thrifted electronics he never uses?

I've always envied people who are passionately into anything. I worked at a place that made a lot of rocket engines for NASA and the government. There were a lot of people there who had wanted to make rockets or space stuff since they were little kids. Some couldn't believe they got paid to do what they did.

That was never me. I had a great job and felt lucky to have it, but I was happy enough to retire when I was able to. I just never felt that level of passion about it, or anything really.

Like I know a guy who is so into music that he got a treble clef tattooed on his arm. I've never had anything that was such a part of my identity that I wanted a tattoo of it. It must be cool to have that.

They aren't dolls they are ACTION FIGURES.

Now, someone help me fit this barbie dress on this Transformer.

HOA’s are a dumb fuck concept and should be abolished.

What if being too cool to have fun is how I have fun?

Basically my motto. There's nothing I'm "not allowed" to do (legally). I like old stuff, always have. Others may see it as junk. I enjoy fixing things and my house is a mess with projects. Sometimes I don't finish them. But when i do its great. My yard isnt perfectly manicured becuase I actually hate that. I let dandelions grow until they're dead, then I mow. I have books all over the place in the house because I read 10 things at once. I have tons of game systems and sit on the floor to play them because I just find that the fun and relaxing way.

People think I'm weird, and I'm glad !

I was out at the hardware store a while back and Christmas lights were on steep discount, and there were ten spools of lights at 90% off, and so I bought all ten of them, and that was the start of a Christmas light hobby that is verging on Clark Griswold levels of light density, and I'm feeling real good about that process.

What’s an ass lawn?

We don't see how average people really live represented in popular media. And, on the rare occasion such a thing breaks through, those who strive to meet what is represented in popular media harshly and loudly judge what they see. But, most people recognize something of themselves in it, and remain quiet.

Being judgemental is also just a goofy pastime

Idk, man. There's a certain vapid hollowness to a lot of the consumerist fan cultures.

Like, I'm not going to complain that you've got a desk covered in "I love golf" tchotchkes or bobble heads of your favorite movie character all over your bedroom or Batman's logo tattooed on your arm. But I'm not going to admire you for it.

Don't waste your time being cool to have fun

It's nice not to be so self-conscious that you can't enjoy yourself and cultivate friends who enjoy the same thing. But sometimes its also nice to do a little bit of introspection when other people are consistently turned off by what you're doing with all your time and money.