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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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[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.