An eccentric person is an individual who shakes society with his extraordinary behavior, bordering on oddities. An eccentric person lives near the border of the norm; her behavior is constantly surprising. From Latin, the word "eccentricus" is translated as "deviating from the center." Of such people, you can often hear that they are "not from our planet." Who are really eccentric people?
Eccentricity: why are they not like everyone else?
Eccentricity should not be confused with ostentatiousness. The latter is constantly seeking approval from others. Demonstration is never detached from reality, in fact, it is only a simulation of eccentricity in order to impress.
A truly eccentric person is natural in his eccentricity. For him, his strangeness is quite logical, or rather, for such a person, this is not strangeness, but the norm. An eccentric person is a person who has a slightly different format of logic. His sails, engine and wind are all the same, but the navigation equipment in his ship works on a completely different principle. Thanks to a downed course, it constantly carries in the wrong direction.
An eccentric person is a person who exists by itself. He can always explain his actions. He didn’t take off his coat at the meeting — so he was leaving soon, he went into the office without knocking — so why knock, the door is still open.
An eccentric character can play a cruel joke as well as help to achieve success. Eccentricity helps such people become famous artists, writers, businessmen, politicians, etc. True, there are also clinical options, for example, quiet and unfit for life eccentrics. Such people, as a rule, often become patients of psychiatric hospitals.
The most eccentric people
As already mentioned, eccentric people often seek recognition. Among the outstanding people, there are many eccentrics.
1. Hetty Green. The strange thing about this woman is that she was an incredible miser. Thanks to her business acumen and economy, Hetty became the richest woman in the 19th century. Her stinginess knew no bounds: for many years she went in the same dress, ate the cheapest pies and equipped herself with an office in the lobby of the bank. Despite her huge fortune (about $ 2 billion), this Briton saved until her death.
2. No less eccentric celebrity is the writer Oscar Wilde. In conservative England, he wore very colorful clothes and walked with a lobster on a leash. In contrast, Hetty Green Wilde, on the contrary, displayed his solvency.
3. In the 18th century, Simeon Ellerton lived, who was famous for striving for ideal physical fitness before fanaticism. He was very fond of walking over fairly long distances. During such walks, he often collected large stones and wore on his head. As a result, he built a house from these stones, but the habit of carrying stones on his head remained for life.
People have always loved the originals, watching their antics is a very funny pastime. An eccentric person is a person who lives the way he wants, without looking back at those around him. Being a little more original would not hurt many people. The main thing is to be able to only “roll back” from the center a little so as not to lose your life axis.