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[highlyeccentric]

sea_of_tethys on the beauty of the ordinary:

I mean, we are all put under all this pressure to be special or unusual in some way, but by definition most of us have to be ordinary - so why beat yourself up over it? It doesn't make any sense. I think in a way the pressure to be special robs us of our inherent dignity as human beings - if we are all created equal then we don't need to be special. And it's tremendously liberating to be able to accept yourself as ordinary.

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[hithluin.livejournal.com]

You're different, special and an extraordinary individual... just like everybody else ;)

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

WE ARE ALL INDIVIDUALS!

... i'm not...


ah the wisdom of Python

[hithluin.livejournal.com]

*g* Indeed!

- You don't have to do what everybody else tells you to do!

- I like having orders ;)

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

A quote from Chuck Palahniuk (& from Fight Club):

“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.”

[mininirime.livejournal.com]

But I don't want to be ordinary O.o

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

i don't think i COULD be if i tried :P but it's an interesting way of looking at it.

[flamearrows.livejournal.com]

I think it's rather defeatist, myself

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Oh I don't know. I find it rather liberating. If you're not the "beautiful and unique snowflake", then you don't have to live up to an impossible standard, and are therefore free to be...yourself! It's a bit of a paradox really. Paradoxes (paradice?) are good for cutting one's thinking teeth on.