03-18-2011, 10:50 AM
Quote:I don't know, but I've never been "plugged in" and I always saw things differently than others. Then when you try to point it out it just goes right over their heads or they think you are weird. It's like some people are so controlled by the media and they don't even realize it. I actually feel that sometimes I live within a fabricated social construct and I'm operating independently of it.
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.
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. I guess we all relate to the world in different ways. I feel I relate to the world directly how it affects me emotionally; what I observe in others is they relate to the world how they are told to relate to it, or how they see others relating to it. Unfortunately in the west it seems a very superficial, materialistic way of relating. Bottomless pit.
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.” - Carl Jung
