I can see it fading.

What the hell happened to individualism? All I see is more and more people joining, becoming part of the growing mass, that will continue co devour the human race. Yes, physically none of us will ever be the same, but mentally, it seems as if people are trading in their individuality for their "trendy" cards. But why??? Why abandon who you are? Is it to be cool? When I was coming up, the people I deemed as "cool" where people that are original, like nobody else, not the ones like EVERYONE else. How can that be cool???? That would mean, buy those definitions, everybody caught in the mass is cool. How can a mass be cool if they're all followers and not leaders? Is everybody posers? I mean, you have old people trying to emulate what the kids do, becoming part of that growing mass. Only....they tend to stay a step behind lol.

But, a man once asked me "what's worse, being like everybody else or tryin your hardest to be different?" Which side is being truer to themselves? Is the right answer neither black nor white? Is it just a shade of gray? In many peoples struggle to be different, are we(yes.....I'm including myself) compromising who we truly are? Do we turn our backs on the things we like, or even loved just because more people started to like them? Let's face it, many people that we deem "different" are the true trend starters of the world. How so? It's because we do dare to be different and do what we want, wear what we want, listen to what we want, cause we do give a damn what anyone else thinks about us. But is that also a front in itself? Do you just brush off the insults like they don't matter, when deep down inside, our inner self is in pain....from not being accepted? Or do we truly not care, because being different is cool?

Is it like the whole Starbucks being everywhere deal? It's so many places, that it's lost it's uniqueness. It's lost it's special feel. It's doomed to become the name of coffee, just like Xerox has become the name of copies or how Aspirin has became the name of any pill containing aspirin. Is every trend going to start off as something small that people do just to be different and then grow so huge that it looses it's "special feel"? Are those highschool stereotypes gonna become more broad or even fade away? Or are they just gonna change? Is one going to become progressively more dominate over the rest as time goes on? I for one want my children to grow up in a world where they can be exposed to vastly different people, who enjoy vastly different things. Now, it doesn't hurt having common ground on things, because that's what helps bring us together. But, it's when all ground is common that worries me. Taking in some trends that you might actually like isn't bad. But when you take them in because everybody else is doing it, that's when it's bad. That's when your raping your individuality and throwing to the side just to join the mass.

Dare to be Different

A friend of mines wrote a blog about....holding back what you wanted to do, because of the fear of criticism from your friends. That got me thinkin about myself and when I reached my point of realization where I finally stopped caring what people thought. I'm sure some people can relate to this......but the MANY MAAAANY times I decided to....change the beat to the drums in my march called life, every time I was confronted with...ridicule or acceptance.

But....why do people strive to stay a part of the masses??? Is life easier when the overlord is banging the huge drum for you, controlling you and billions others? Telling you what's in with fashion. Telling you what song or music artist is cool. Telling you art museums aren't totally AWESOME lol. Telling you "You're not allowed to do that, you're off beat. BACK IN LINE!" Tellin you that....if you do something different, people wont accept you for who you truly are. So they hide and hide and hide. Pass up the chance to do something new just because somebody that ...in the end wont matter, may find them "strange".

But.......isn't it the differences we all have, the very thing that makes us cool and interesting? A friend of mines once said "Dare to be Different". March to the ever changing beat of the drum in our march called life. Do what you wanna do. If somebody doesn't like it, leave em behind and keep marchin. When somebody calls you crazy for wanting to dye your hair, learn to play an instrument, get a tattoo, dress a certain way, learn a new trade, fulfill your dreams.......throw up the deuce and bounce. What fun is life if everyone else is doin exactly what you do?? It becomes mundane and pointless.

It's why I always whole-heartedly support my friends in anything they want to do. And if I have them means to do so, I'll give em a hand. Why put somebody down because they go against the grain?? Somebody once told me, people are afraid of the un-normal. It's why people strive to remain normal.....and why some amount to nothing. Trapt in that web of society.

You think Barack Obama was considered "normal"? Although he seems to be a seriously chill dude, I'm sure he wasn't. Look at him now, the effin president. You think Jimi Hendrix was "normal"? Nope.com. And now he's a legend. You think most of these Idols and heroes were normal? Majority of them, not at all. I'm sure, when ever they decided to do what they do now, everyone laughed and said they couldn't do it. Everyone called them silly and said they'd never make it. And THAT right there is where you decide.........."do I let go of that....so people accept me again" or.......is it final time to stop caring and do what you want?

Support the ones that dare to be different, because not alot of people do. Why support us?? Because....we're the one's that'll lead this world in the future.