Dorks Rule!

Someone once said, ~Embrace the total dork in yourself and enjoy it, because well, life is too short to be cool.~ We've all met people who have this persona of being a cool or absolutely stunning person; but yet when you ask him or her about their persona, one's perception of himself or herself is totally the opposite. Every person has a tendency to reveal how dorky they are when he or she is around friends, family, and even co-workers. For it can also pertain to certain situations or events that a person can really get excited about to the point where people either look at you funny and tell you that professional help is needed immediately. Let me ask you this question, do you consider yourself a dork?

If you think about it, what makes each of us "cool" is the way one takes particular situations in stride with a sense of humor. In some aspects, a sense of humor can go a long way for a person that can somehow make life just a little bit bearable. It's either the way a person's laughs, which can be truly infectious and who among us hasn't laughed to the point where one snorted; but you didn't care who noticed because you were happy and having fun. Though, you have to admit, we're all a little strange in our own unique and dorky way and that's why people like us or at least tolerate us. In most cases, it's the people who know us best who wouldn't want us to change because they respect who each of us are as an individual.

For its not only a person's sense of humor, its also how a person reacts to certain things that can consider him or her a dork. Without question, there are certain songs that when one immediately hears it, you start to get up and dance or at least move your head in every direction possible. Personally speaking, several days ago some kids were sitting beside me on the gym stage and we were listening to the radio. At one point, a song came on where all the kids started to shake their groove thang; but my dorkish self sat on the stage, put on my sunglasses, and started to act like Stevie Wonder with the clapping hands included. I haven't had so many people stare at me since I walked in one day wearing a sombrero.

In any case, a person can consider themselves a complete and total dork when it comes to that certain guy or girl. It's that person who can not only smile but make you act like you're back in middle school. Essentially, it can't be helped because there are certain people in this world who have that innate ability to turn a calm, reserved person into a bumbling, dorky person. I can safely guess that myself and many of you have been in a particular situation like this and would gladly try to forget. But the question can be asked, does the quality of being a dorky person add or subtract to one's criteria in who one is looking for in a potential relationship? Who knows really, it's all in what he or she likes in a person.

In retrospect, a person has to take pride in his or her dorkiness. Inevitably, we're all a bunch of dorky people living in a crazy world and yet we're more alike than different. Nobody is better than anybody else and if people accept who one truly is then life gets a little less complicated. When it comes to friends and family, we just accept them for who they are and they are with us, which includes the emotional and personal baggage that is carried around. Ultimately, who cares what others think about you because if you are comfortable with yourself then that's the only opinion that matters. If you were once or are a dork, be proud and stand tall because I'm a dork and in the end Dorks Rule!