Quirkiness what's your super power

Everyone is different and that's what makes us all the same. We tend to identify ourselves because of our uniqueness, the first time you talk to someone new, you ask them where they are from, what their occupation and if the inquiry continues you get to know their hobbies and other interests.

Mentally there are categories and boxes people are placed into. I can tell you that the relationship with Obadiah the painter and the one with Priscilla the statistician are going to be visibly different. After finding out which fields of interest the way one starts to characterise a person starts to have biases.

In the science fiction department of media there's a lot of content to do with superpowers or some sort of inhuman ability. Usually the ability is tied to some sort of traits of the user at times or an event that happened in their life. For my first time watching this kind of content as a child I was left feeling a little envious, you know the ever so common scenario of wanting to be bitten by a spider to be like a certain comic book character.
Such delusions of grandeur we have at times, can you imagine how different reality could have been if you had telekinesis or super strength or if you got to enroll in an institution for the gifted.

It's a humbling reality that we can only imagine these things. The efforts are made however to create the plausibility of being super human and the super ability can be tied to an attribute of a person, perhaps intellect or a talent that's what comes to mind currently.It makes it so relatable to see superheroes who aren't so super because the normal human isn't super too. I'm not a Batman fanboy but just seeing how he holds his own in a universe of metahumans is quite inspiring, unfortunately the means to have an almost infinite amount of batarangs and gadgets to fight is something unimaginable for me on a student budget. So a more feasible way to be quirky in a way that is similar to being a superhero, one tends to look at the protruding parts of themselves in terms of ability and personality.

In the pursuit of being quirky where does one draw the line? What exactly becomes the boundary whereby my uniqueness is enough? In a time where one's internet presence is usually connected to the way they identify themselves, is there a point where one is doing too much to standout amongst millions of bios? At times I tend to ask myself am I only made up of my quirks or is there more, because there maybe certain attributes that I have that may be hindering my growth as a person simply because I have become so rigidly connected to identifying myself in those brackets.

As one grows, one discovers themselves more, there are periods of transitioning from being bound by one ipseity to another. One scripture does come to mind,

"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways."

1 Corinthians 13:11 ESV

We will not always be in the same condition throughout the seasons of our lives and what happens when changes occur that rattle the framework of our classifications? Do we still remain the same people if we can't necessary say that we can identify with the quirks we once held onto?

I hope I haven't lead many of you into an existential crisis at this point, it has just been a point of pondering for me lately just thinking about how far the drive to be different can leave one in a peculiar place. I implore you to take the time to ponder how you tend to introduce yourself to others and what points of significance do you exhibit to prove your uniqueness and how much depth and weight do they have in your life.