Individuality
May 12, 2014 Assumptions 3 comments mmarquis14
Are you really an individual? “Everyone’s different”, so does that automatically make you an individual? Really…it doesn’t. Being an individual is more than being the only person who likes brussel sprouts, or likes a move nobody else does. Individuality is more than skin deep, and who you are. It means you can do your own thing when everyone has something to say about it. When you say something knowing everyone else in the room is going to disagree. When you continue being you, no matter the controversy it brings. When you are okay becoming the outcast. Many call themselves “individuals”, “one of a kind”, or “rebels” when none can– nor will –deal with– or do– what I have listed above.
My entire high school year, I have been an individual. I can say that I have done and dealt with all the above. I, also, want to point out it wasn’t easy, but it was the best choice I have ever made. I watch every day these “individuals” dress the same, talk the same, do the same things, gossip about the same things, and think they are “one of a kind”. I’ve been criticized for how I talk and how I don’t do the same things. It used to kind of bother me, but I’ve realized that it wasn’t worth yelling at them about it, but to just let them be like everybody else. I’ll continue to be the one that isn’t interested in relationships, doesn’t revolve my life around with being a “thing” with anybody, listen to my rap music, country music, classic rock, all in row, say what is on my mind, be all nike’d out one day, and in a dress the next, because that is who I am. I’m an individual.
There are still many people out there that can be called an individual, and can relate. The ones that don’t, continue with doing what makes you happy. If you want to fit in, and be like people around you, it’s your choice; but don’t call yourself or walk around like you are different. Not everybody is made to be one. It definitely isn’t always easy. It’s the reason me and many others out there are can be individuals.
3 Comments
Really great post Miranda. I relate to most of the above things as well. I like to pride myself in at least trying to be different. Mostly because all of the things that this generation are into are just the worst. When the the current generation scolds you for not fitting in, it’s time to find a new generation because being scolded for being the same is just plain dumb. I say, be who you want to be and not how everyone else wants you to be and then you’ll truely fit in with yourself and that’s all that matters.
I really enjoyed reading this post. It is crazy to think that many of us really are not individuals. I have never had to be someone I was not in front of my friends, but I have at times done things to make others happy that I did not want to. Great post, and very good points made throughout!
Great post, makes me think whether I’m one of a kind or just copying someone else.