How to Embrace the Strange Everyday
Are you fuming with apathy and seething with alienation in the face of a humdrum suburbia? Looking for something to thrust you out of your comfy, monotonous life? The old plastic bag floating in the wind ala American Beautyjust not making you marvel at the wonder of small town America like it used to? Lost your “Stay Weird” beanie circa 2014 Brandy Melville and forgot how to be quirky? If this sounds like you, channel your inner boredom and mania to manifest the strange of the everyday! Learn how to mix the mundane with the mystical, and seek out the unnatural in your daily routine with these simple ideas!
Have a Graveyard Picnic.
Visit a psychic.
Go grocery shopping during the late hours of the night.
Listen to television static.
Start monitoring any nosebleeds, power outages, and spontaneous
fires.
Closeyoureyesandpressdowntillyouseecolorsstarttoformonthe
inside of your eyelids.
Notice any spontaneous chills or goosebumps.
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Study astrology.
Stare into Laundry machines mid wash and watch the swirling abyss
gaze back into you!
Watch the stars and look out for U.F.O’s.
Sit at the bottom of a swimming pool.
Spin around for a minute and watch the world around you begin to
blur and spiral.
Take a walk in the pouring rain.
Listen to “Tommy” by The Who with a candle burning and see your
entire future, ala Almost Famous.
Learn to read palms.
Play “Light as a feather, stiff as a board” with your gal pals!
Do a tarot card reading.
Play a record backwards and listen for any hidden messages.
Lesson over, class dismembered! Use this toolkit to embrace the whirling chaos of the world and relish in the unusual. Start listening to the calls of the void and the universe will present them to you more frequently, giving you something more to appreciate outside of the stuffy, static tedium of fluorescent lit buildings and 9-5 routines. Remember that the otherworldly is always lying beneath the most mundane of settings! The next time you stroll through a picturesque neighborhood, look beyond the well kept gardens and two car garages and homes that look like they’ve been cut from magazine covers, and turn your attention to the groves of beautiful Oak trees that line the blocks. There’ll be a tree, with a pitch oozing out sap, like blood from a wound. Look at the millions of red ants crawling all over it. Drowning, choking in sap. And realize that’s how it always is! If anyone looks a little closer at this beautiful world, there are always red ants underneath it all - the strange lurking in wait.