Strange Girl Thoughts

I've always been perfectly content with the fact that I march to the beat of my own drum.

If I like something, I don't try to dissect why and whether I should/shouldn't like it. I don't weigh pros and cons. I just accept that I like it. Although that way of thinking has caused me trouble now and then, ultimately I've become a very open-minded person because of it.

At the same time, there are times where I wonder how the hell I got to being the way that I am. I'm a 22 year old African-American female leading a gay-straight alliance organization on my college campus. I find myself interested in kpop music, going to the movies alone, watching Asian soap operas, and listening to indie music.

I'm fine with it but sometimes I just wonder why I'm so strange. Why is it that I can hear Miss A's "Breathe" and get soooooooooo excited singing the Korean lyrics as though they're in English? Why do I worship the ground Karen-O and Emily Haines walk on? Why am I so caught up in the drama "Coffee Prince" right now.

My friends don't relate to me when it comes to things like that. I'm an army brat & I've grown up in a fairly conservative home yet I just seem to be so "out there". I understand that stereotypes are not completely valid but I just feel so off base...like my thinking isn't right. I'm okay with that. I just wonder WHY? and HOW?

Knowing why and how wouldn't stop me from enjoying the things that I enjoy. It would, however, somehow make the room seem a bit less empty.