Being set apart doesn’t mean being strange. It means being kind in a way that’s hard to explain.

Being different and being odd are not the same project, and plenty of people confuse them. The oddness is easy; you can get that from rules, slogans and opting out of things loudly. The rarer thing is much harder to copy. It is a kindness that does not fit the situation, where somebody is decent to a person who could not do anything for them and none of the usual explanations quite cover it.

Aim at that this week rather than at being noticeably separate. Be kind in one place where nobody would have bothered, and skip the explanation afterwards.