Not to say that I’m the first on Earth to appreciate these things, but more to say that I always felt my interests were not shared by the majority. My appreciation always felt honest, and I always valued that I stuck with them despite believing that most others didn’t share them.

• obsessing over Harry Potter
• crazy rants in my pocket sketchbook
• strange, nonsensical drawings
• making dreamcatchers/collaging shit for the hell of it
• what I thought was “unpopular” fashion
  (which I now realize is VERY popular)
• romanticizing tea and coffee
• romanticizing rain
• romanticizing pretty much everything I liked

I use romanticize in the original sense, meaning to deal with things in an idealized and unrealistic way.