Dare To Be Different

Before I blab on about daring to be different I feel I have to mention this- think of your circle of friends? Do you have a friend whith whom the relationship just flows so easily? I have a couple, one of which I have spent tonight with and it's been lovely. Just sitting back, relaxing and having a laugh, and it's so easy, nothings forced or pretended we just are! If you have a friend like this, consider yourself lucky, it's nice to be accepted wholly for being you by somebody and instead of treading the water as it sometimes seems when you're with people, it's nice to be able to just float.

Daring To Be Different.
Here's a cliche- We're all sheep :) We all follow, we are are ruled by a society which dictates all social norms and how we should and shouldn't behave and who we should and shouldn't be. But here's the thing- have you ever dared to be different? Have you ever dared to rock the boat?

All just carbon copies....
We all seem to be carbon copies of a certain ideology, and to an extent it saddens me. Ask yourself this, what would happen if you dared to be different? Would the world end? No. Would anyone die? No. So what's stopping you?

I'm a black sheep...
If we all have to be sheep- fine. I get it, physically I'm no different. If you saw me in the street you'd look at me and think "Sure, she's just another nobody kid doing what all the other nobody kids do. She's not particularly well known, not an "IT" girl, just average and ordinary" But look a bit deeper than that for me, just for a second. You'll see, I'm the black sheep. I don't follow the crowd because I don't care fot the bitchiness that comes with following these popular ideals. I don't like how people bitch and backstab and double cross and if that is the way society runs then I am glad to not be a part of the "normal" society. I've said before and I'll say it again, as long as someone is nice to me and to others, I don't care where they come from or what they like or who they are, I'll like them for being able to be nice. Everyone is capable of compassion, some just lack the healthy amount of self exspression for it. If you look closely at me you'll see the following things:-

1) I am the girl who will wear odd socks to make a statement. It's small time rebellion I realise, but if the social norm dictates that we wear matching socks, then I will wear odd socks and be proud of it- Who am I harming?
2) I'm the one who will blast ACDC out of my ipod one minute, and then listen to Cathrine Jenkins the next- If you stick to one genre you miss out on a whole host of things, and we arent on earth long enough to miss out on things.
3) I'm the girl that will happily stop to help the people who society have classed as the "underdogs", I don't care why they're in that situation, that isn't the issue, the issue is that they are people all the same and every human life is special and worth the time it takes to save.
4) I like things that people at my age aren't freely willing to admit that they like- I like ceebeebies, charlie and lola and In the night garden etc, I also have a bit of a love fo Icarly and High School Musical, and I don't care, again I'm not harming anybody in liking these things, and I don't really care about anyone who's petty enough to take the piss- taking the mick shows the immaturity in my eyes, not my watching of these things :P
5) I spend a lot of my time writing, reading, singing, painting and drawing and maybe not enough time socialising. I watch people and study how they behave, particularly I am interested in how they behave towards others, but I don't always find myself willing to interact with them. This, though classed probably as socially inappropriate, is my perogative, I harm no-one in doing this, so they should just leave me to it.

A Little Anecdote...
I had an appointment with a lovely lady today and as she was talking to me I became rather fascinated with a dolls house in the corner of the room. Still listening, I wandered over to the dolls house and started to rearrange the furniture, position the dolls in different places. The lady I was with watched me in bewilderment for a while, until I told her that the house needed a dog, at which point she walked to the other end of the room and returned with two boxes where we both proceeded to rummage around for a dog, which was eventually found and placed in the house. The reason I mention this is that, while the lady I was with is well aware of my age, as am I, instead of being skeptical about my playing with the dolls in the dolls house, she actually almost encouraged it. I'm a child at heart really, in many ways I think we all are. The lady I was with then turned around and told me that next time we'd have to have some more toys! I loved her for saying that, for accepting my childish streak instead of ridiculing like so many would have done.

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Don't get me wrong, I like all the mature and my own age things too. I love shopping, I spend most of my life on the laptop, intelectually I'm average, I do my hair every day and my nails are painted. I wear rather too many bracelets (between 20 and 30 on a normal day) but I don't harm anyone and am no threat. I am different from "normal" people, but then everything about me scientifically is also different, so why should I change myself for anyone else?

Remember, you're amazing. It doesn't matter if you watch ICarly or High School Musical or play with dolls houses. It doesn't matter if you aren't what society considers "normal". Take that as a compliment, well done, it means your true to yourself and are yourself and you should be proud for that. You're unique and special, why want to be anyone else? As the lady I was with earlier proved, even when you do the daftest and insanest of things, you're still accepted as long as you aren't harming anyone. Remember that people do not judge you as such, they judge your actions, so if your actions are good hearted then all they can judge is good.

And of course darlings:-

Keep Smiling :)
Love, Tutti-Frutti
xxx