Dare to be Different!

You laugh at me because I'm different. I laugh at you because you're all the same. Jonathan Davis (Audio-book Narrator).

You are the only you that there is. There cannot be another you. You will never be someone else. You may act like them, talk like them, dress like them, but will never be them. Why not give up trying to be someone else and simply be you?

The basic problem with people is conformity. Everybody seems to want to be like another person. Rather than be originals we want to be copies.

I understand that we all learn by copying. Indeed, the primary means of learning is copying – so in essence a child walks like its parents, talks like them, smiles and laughs like them. When the child grows he or she discovers that there is a difference between it and its parents. Gradually it breaks away from total connection from its parents.

The problem is that although we may disconnect from conforming to our parents we submit to conforming to people around us. We conform to our peers, work colleagues, and even foes. We bend and act the way people make us act. When we are faced with some situation, rather than react creatively, we act with some degree of spontaneity because the scripts of our actions have already been written.

Real ingenuity does not come with conformity. At best you will become as successful as the person you are copying, never better. Jesus Christ noted that, “A student is no better than his teacher. But anyone who is well-trained will be like his teacher.”  You will stop to grow. Since they have limits you know your limits.

When you religiously conform to other folks you lose your freedom and become bound with the shackles of their own boundaries. Nothing more brings depression and sorrow than the thought that a person’s life is externally controlled.

Worse still is the fact that you lose the ability to think creatively. What is there to think any more since you have a blueprint already?

Stop! Slap yourself awake! You are a person also! Your life has dignity! Live your own life to the fullest. Rather than conform, create! Create your world. Encourage you friends and loved one to create theirs also. No joy of success can be compared to the joy of having lived your own life.