You better wear your shades the spotlights here can burn holes through the stage...

The spotlights on us these days are way too bright. Every detail every move of our everyday lives is scrutinized by someone somewhere. Why can't we all just be who we want to be, without fear of being judged? Why must we live our day to day lives guarded from those around us? This keeps running through my head, especially this time of the year when I get ready to go to Dragon*Con. The one time a year I really feel free to act how I want to act, and not be judged for it. I mean it's 4 days of utter geek-dom where the oddballs rule and all signs of normalcy are thrown out the window. It's a party that if your there your a dork and therefor you can't pick on anyone for being there cause you are too. Yeah some people take the costuming to the extreme, but hello it's part of the fun letting lose and allowing the inner nerd to reign supreme. Too bad we all try to hide it the rest of the year to "blend-in" with society and try to be portrayed as this thing called "normal" we all seam to strive for for no apparent reason... I mean why not stand out in the crowd and be the one with the half shaved head and rainbow colored liberty spikes? O yeah... the image turns heads and we get the look. Everyone turns the spotlight on that one person and starts judging a book by its cover... And how often are they wrong about what they see? I mean come on "what you see is what you get" doesn't always apply. What about that poor shaggy dog you saw on the side of the road? Why not take it home get to know it before you make that judgment call? Just saying turn off the bright spot lights and read a page out of someones book before you cast them off as "weird" cause "weird" can mean the difference between the coolest person you ever met and the coolest person you SHOULD have met.