The Rise of the Misfits: Why Being ‘Too Much’ Is Exactly What the World Needs

It’s Time!
The era of the ‘weirdos’ has arrived.

While panic drips through our timelines, the news offers no stability anymore, and truth seems like an artifact from antiquity, we—the eternal misfits—are flourishing like never before. Because chaos? We know it all too well. That tsunami of feelings and ideas racing through you? Welcome to my daily reality!

For years, I bit my tongue in those soulless meetings, where my truth would have shattered the carefully constructed illusion of ‘normal.’ I swallowed well-meant advice about ‘staying realistic,’ while my entire being screamed for more.

Just like all those ‘different’ young people. Those beautiful souls we’ve plastered with labels because they’re ‘too sensitive,’ ‘too smart,’ ‘too different.’ Those who don’t fit into the school-work-9-to-5-mortgage-work-until-you-die system, they are the harbingers of what’s to come.

Of course so many young people are depressed! They feel in their very bones that they were born into a system that’s far past its expiration date. Their discomfort is the canary in the coal mine. A compass spinning wildly because they sense a reality that’s so much grander than this narrow version we call ‘normal.’

It’s time we stop forcing everything that dares to be different into boxes. We don’t need more obedient citizens coloring neatly within the lines.

Because those lines…
That Was Once!

We’re entering a phase of complete line chaos, where nothing can be colored in anymore. There, we’re invited to enter no man’s land with all the courage we can muster, where no one knows the way—the only place where something truly new can emerge.

This isn’t about rebellion. This is about liberation!

About finally throwing off that heavy yoke of judgments and daring to shine in your full glory. About cheering each other on, instead of forcing each other back in line.

Because the world craves people who dare to feel, who go far beyond thinking, who light the fires and let innovations explode out of their frameworks.

So to all the misfits, the different-feelers, those who are ‘too much’—this is your moment!

Just be weird, you’re already normal enough!

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Tessa Smits

"I am Tessa Smits, and I will take you on an adventurous journey to explore the unknown and the supposedly impossible. My second novel, ‘I Give Birth To The Universe’, is a prime example of this, where our infinite creative power takes center stage. For me, art is the means to make tangible what cannot be expressed in words. Whether I’m creating art, writing, or crafting something else, my intention remains the same: to seek out what truly touches us, what is real, and what reminds us as human beings of who we truly are—immeasurably powerful."