LIFE OF AN ECCENTRIC part 1. Or the story about Teddy and vacuuming.

Are you or are you not an eccentric? Either way, there is certainly no reason to think about it negatively. From what I have learned, it’s quite obvious to me, and it’s the fact that there is a bit of an eccentric living inside each of us. That’s the reason why some people let that eccentricity shine from time to time, or they keep it hibernated like a bear so that they won’t feel ashamed by its “roaring.”
However, what if the bear is just a cute little puppy that will only bark from time to time? That could be a reason why you should not be afraid to let your eccentricity shine from time to time. Because instead of shame, you could actually have lots of fun. It’s most important how you feel about it, not the people who will witness it. I would suggest that everyone should feel free to celebrate and embrace “kuku” manners, but let’s not give it too much of free reins in the case we will wake up not only a bear, who is maybe already awake. But the Volcano is still asleep and can be awake by the bear’s “roaring.”

Mmmm, I may not be too concerned about the Volcano thing either, because when you look at the nature of the volcano when it’s awake, it makes some mess, but usually, in few days it will go back to the sleep. Maybe, in this case, we could make together some rules for an eccentricity. Like an eccentric Fridays? Or, perhaps not this time.

I never thought of myself as an eccentric person. Surely I have to admit that sometimes I didn’t understand myself fully. And I often thought that I am a bit different from the others, “the hibernating ones.” With my thoughts and ideas reminding me of fireworks. I believed that I have a unique and complex point of view that I perceived the world which often leads me to some spontaneous actions. Well, at least my eccentric ideas with my opinions made a lot of people laugh and even gave them some eccentric inspiration for their own eccentric deeds.

One of the many examples would be that at school me and one of my best friends, by the way also very eccentric and lovely person. She was certainly very happy about being involved and being a part of the puppy-bear gang.

Anyway, at that time, we both admired Mr. Bean. Those days he was our guru number one, that made us laugh with his unique bunch of eccentric plots.

He inspired us so much and of course it led us to the action. Don’t worry; we didn’t end up with turkey on our head. Like girls, we preferred more cute and permanent things.

Therefore, one day, my friend sewed an exactly same teddy bear like the one Mr. Bean owned. In the course of time, Teddy even missed one of his button eyes. We have had to make that little treatment with the scissors. Based on the one of Mr. Bean series. Match is match, right?

Teddy was our mascot and was attending school with us; he was traveling with us on school trips. He stayed alternately home with us because we shared his custody. We took it really serious, and indeed it was fun. We entertained not only ourselves with it but also our classmates and teachers. Despite all the entertainments, teachers unfortunately, didn’t give us better marks in tests. But we made it through the study and Teddy also. Sadly, I have never seen him since then.

However, guess what. Many years later when we had a school reunion, my friend who I didn’t see for a while brought Teddy with her. My heart was melted. After all these years, I lived in the conviction that Teddy has died or she gave him to her son like a toy to play with.
But she stated that Teddy is our memory, and she will keep him this way forever. Because that is what he truly is. And here, I’m coming with the description of an eccentric type of child and fun that you can have with it in the childhood.

I just forgot to mention that our parents were not so apprehensive with the Teddy thing. He nearly finished in the rubbish bin a few times. For this reason, I would like to appeal to every parent. If you have an eccentric child and that kid is having lots of fun with it, let the child do his or her thing and have some understanding in this matter. We all know that kids can sound like an awakening volcano, but in fact, they’re just cute little “puppies.” Kids should have fun and live in the joy because then they will grow up to be happier adults. I believe that it is that feeling of happiness, that is still a rare feeling in the presence of the difficult world of adults.
Alright, I have explained eccentric childhood, but how about when you are carrying this circus with you into maturity?

I acknowledged it when I moved to Dublin; it was a period of my life when I had a full responsibility for my first household. I felt free from the influence of parents and finally had free ribbons off their rules. It was also a time when I realised that some things should be maybe a little bit less eccentric and spontaneous.

I thought that it is normal when I decide to clean the house at early morning hours. My meantime partner wasn’t happy at all about my decision and refused to give me a hand. He didn’t support me in my decision to make our place clean and cosy.

Luckily for me, my neighbours were very understanding people and had some politeness and respect towards my weirdness. They sometimes only asked kindly if I really need to vacuum every Tuesday at 2:30 am. Eventually, I had to come to the important conclusion, that I should’ve made more practical planning in my weird cleaning schedule. And so I did. Everyone was celebrating.

But it also meant for me that I had to find another way of how to embrace my joy for an eccentricity.
I believe that it will actually be an amazing topic for my next post. You might be witnessing and reading stories about unicorns and chickens of many forms. Or my ideas about Fridays in Onesies especially when it’s going about politicians. Because they are the best candidates for Onesies Fridays.

Who knows, let me surprise you.