The "I want to be different" mentality

[Valyza1]

All snowflakes are small and white, but they each look different. That's about as profound as I care to get, here.

[Minimalist]

All snowflakes are small and white, but they each look different.

That comment reminded me of the time, long ago when I was still living in NY, that I was flipping around the dial and landed on a basketball game.  Now normally I wouldn't watch basketball on a bet but this was five big, black guys, on one side and five little white guys on the other.  It was a less-than-professional cable broadcast so there weren't the customary graphics and I couldn't figure out who was playing.  Finally, the announcers let it out that it was Fordham against Yeshiva.  One of the guards for Yeshiva was wearing a yarmulke!  I watched it until half time which was a couple of minutes and the score at the half was 73-6.

I mean, even fucking yhwh can't help you boys.  Give it up.

[Thumpalumpacus]

[Valyza1]

You can pick up two cocktail wieners in one turn with that fork and can't with the others. Just sayin.

[YouOnlyLiveTwice]

If we stopped worrying about whether we're being different or not for every action we take, we might have more rationalized and sensible logic behind some of our actions. Big decisions, with anything worthwhile at stake, need better motivations than just "I want to be different from others". Worry about safety, security, efficiency, practicality, effectiveness, enjoyment, etc, not whether or not you're doing the same thing as the person next to you. Do it for whatever reasons count for you; if the only reason that counts for you is "being different", then I think you've got an attention-seeking disorder...

[TheBeardedDude]

Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else


Cheers
TheBeardedDude

[Iroscato]

I'm so different I can't even vibrate on this plane of reality. I'm actually communicating with you all from the Nethervoid, intermittent contact with this dimension made possible only by vats of goat blood gathered by my mortal thralls.

[Regina]

Difference for the sake of difference is silly, and for the sake of "diversity!" it can be downright dangerous if it leads to cultural conflicts within one country.

Just be your boring self, which more than likely is the same sack of slowly aging rotting skin cells as everyone else on the planet.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

Being different just for the sake of being different is attention seeking. Maybe some unmet emotional needs there?
But yeah, being too vanilla is boring, you know?
I mean, as far as I'm concerned, I believe we build our character through our experiences, so I try to engage in interesting experiences to be "unique". You know? I mean, you don't want to be having some boring "what did you have for breakfast" conversation when you meet someone new, right? So I engage in different activities that gives me lots of interesting stories to share and interesting experiences to mold my own unique human with its own unique experiences...because ..at the end of the day some of the sweetest people were the biggest cunts, some of the cruelest;the kindest..as dumb as it may sound.

[ignoramus]

Sometimes superficial is good. Nature does it all the time when eg: a male bird will do a funny dance or show off some nice coloured feathers to attract an equally superficial lady bird.
Being deep and chopra-ish to get the girl is also just another survival technique to find a mate. Lastly, just flop it out and put it on the line!