Too Different?

Given the social hierarchy that young adults perpetuate, ”I want to be different like everyone else” sounds a like the latest adaptation of “keeping up with the Jones’s.” Yet the new saying moves towards the idea of identity and popularity; away from wealth and success previously. The idea of identity seems to be under full redefining with many people figuring out who they are and what they truly want from life. Trying to either refine and re-find their identity.

Can you behave too different? Different according to who? Having divergent standards of being for different’s sake is not the same as being unique. Uniqueness is a perceived over time as the quality of being particularly remarkable, special, or unusual; providing a certain level of entertainment or utility.

Creativity drives you to understand how to represent what you have in your mind. Your unique perspective is a combination of your experiences within the socioeconomics you’re exposed to.

If you’re having experiences beyond the norm, you risk becoming alienated, unless you can incorporate these ideas back into your culture in perhaps a palatable manner that helps others see your view or to question their own. That is what the evolution of Pop music has done regularly almost as an institution. It makes the case of marketing a voice for the masses while also selling that voice in a unique perspective.

You have some vital role to play in the unfolding of the world. You are, therefore, morally obliged to take care of yourself. You must determine where you are going, so that you can bargain for yourself. Some people really know what they want out of life, while others are open to their mind being changed as long as ‘the system’ aligns with their goals. You could begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping.