03-18-2011, 05:03 PM
Quote:This is spot on. I totally understand where you're coming from, you've summed up exactly how it is for me too. Have you ever read Bill Bryon's 'life and times of the thunderbolt kid'? Mildly plagiarizing a theme from that book, when girls comment on my 'weirdness', 'quirkiness' or whatever, I often joke and flirt with them that I'm form another planet and I've been sent here to "fly, become invisible, shoot guns out of people's hands from a distance, and wear my underpants over my jeans like superman." This get's a laugh, but at the same time it can feel isolating. I'd be lying if I said my 'uniqueness' doesn't bring about a certain degree of loneliness though.
Haha I'll have to check that book out.
Quote:It totally amazes - and depresses - me how few people I meet in my day-to-day life actually think for themselves. 'herd-mentality' doesn't even begin to describe it. I'm not even particularly 'weird'; my opinions aren't out there are anything, I just happen to think for myself. I guess that's a trait enough to make anyone stand out. It's always been that way for me though.
Same here. It just continues to baffle me. The more I try to understand it, the more I really don't get it. Recently my awareness has been growing and I'm just feeling more and more that I am actually in the minority. I never used to think that the large majority of people follow the herd-mentality because I tried to stay positive. But I'm constantly bombarded with evidence all the time that makes it hard to refute.
Quote:I always told my sister that i must be from another planet or something for me not to relate to people the way others do. Like you said Wildflower i think it has do to with most people being superficial and materialistic. it seems like they think being cool is more important then just being you. I mean money and items are just that, what happens when you take that all way. They are nothing but human like the rest of us.
Very true. I feel like people are lost more than ever because of today's media brainwashing them. There are so few people who just be themselves.
