A.) Feeling like you belong at the risk of being assimilated or
B.) Being special and temporarily rejected with the possibility of respect later on when people change their opinion about you?

Let's be practical here, folks. I'm still a B but sometimes A is so tempting. I don't try to be either one, I guess I just fit naturally closer to the B range or something.

9/13/2008 11:02:57 PM

I want to say i am a good mix, so C?

9/13/2008 11:03:49 PM

Yeah, a balance would be healthy.

9/13/2008 11:04:16 PM

i do whatever i wanna do and don't give a shit what anyone thinks of it

9/13/2008 11:04:46 PM

B

9/13/2008 11:04:57 PM

I was rejected by Grace Community Church for not fitting into their perpetual group mentality.

9/13/2008 11:06:36 PM

i do whatever i wanna do and don't give a shit what anyone thinks of it

9/13/2008 11:11:59 PM

9/13/2008 11:21:50 PM

B

I honestly don't care what others think.

9/13/2008 11:24:25 PM

C.

I do what I want and people like me regardless

9/14/2008 12:09:06 AM

That's because you're an Amazon goddess.

9/14/2008 12:15:18 AM

yeah, I just intimidate people into being my friends.

9/14/2008 12:19:03 AM

Touche.

9/14/2008 12:23:58 AM

the question is... could you be an A if you tried

i think not

9/14/2008 12:53:33 AM

did you go back to high school or something?

9/14/2008 1:01:32 AM

what makes cddweller so cddweller, is the fact that you will never, ever, be (A)

9/14/2008 1:03:18 AM

by the way it's worded


everyone is going to claim B.


because nobody WANTS to think they're "part of the machine."

9/14/2008 1:17:51 AM

I'm special and universally embraced and celebrated

so that's like C.)

9/14/2008 1:49:18 AM

Quote :

"because nobody WANTS to think they're "part of the machine.""

Sometimes I crave nothing more than being a wallflower so people will leave me the fuck alone. The next person who looks at me weird on campus will get a ball-stab.

9/14/2008 8:59:41 AM

i don't understand why it has to be one or the other

i probably lean more towards B, but without the low self-esteem

9/14/2008 9:03:21 AM

It doesn't, this is one of "those threads."

9/14/2008 9:06:50 AM

you don't have to stick out to be "different." If you're being different just to stick out, you're doing it wrong.

9/14/2008 10:00:58 AM

Most people who know me in person would say I'm moderately qualified to speak on this topic

The real question is, are you being "special and temporarily rejected" because that is who you are, or have you defined yourself outside of the mainstream intentionally, because you're afraid to fact the fact that you're probably not as special as you think you are?

I'd venture to say that only a few unique souls fall purely in the first category. The rest of us fall somewhere in the middle leaning towards the second category. The trick is to let life round off the unnecessarily rough edges while retaining the qualities that make you who you are . . . and retaining a keen edge of wit or whatnot somewhere on yourself.

Either way, those who are "special" out of fear of being rejected are no different, at their core, than those who assimilate out of fear of being rejected. Figure out what you like about yourself and be confident enough to begin stepping beyond self imposed protective walls which serve as much to keep you cloistered from reality as they do to keep reality at bay.

If any of that makes sense.

9/14/2008 10:02:31 AM

dude, you nailed it.

9/14/2008 10:04:47 AM

I'm glad i don't belong and am rejected from most groups.

[Edited on September 14, 2008 at 10:58 AM. Reason : a]

9/14/2008 10:58:36 AM