there are two categories under which people can live their lives: conformist and non-conformist. this has been said a million times both on the internet and in real life. but before you starting chucking the stinky tomatoes at me like i know you want to, just hear me out.

whichever way you decide to get by in life, you’re still you. you still like what you like and you still hate what you hate, regardless of how many people feel the exact same way — may it be one or one million. who gives a flying fuck that little johnny no-name likes sum 41 just because he heard their latest track on mainstream radio. who gives a shit that tall jane plain-stuff tries to deviate and she follows the bands of the anti-trend. where does it get you in the grand scheme of things to pick on a certain group? nowhere, that’s where. you turn into an even more jaded individual whose sole purpose in life is to compare. don’t you remember the old, old lesson back in grade school that comparing yourself with others is just wrong? our morals have been mucked up with our interests.

people think that by picking on the minority, or even majority, they are changing the world into a “better place.” shut up. a better place for who? for the drones of the future who are oh-so enlightened? that’s bullshit and we all know it.

this has gone on far too long in the world we know. my little sister listens to nsync and collects their cds, but that does not make her any less of a good-hearted person. some of the people i know from school thrive anonymously over the internet with their suped-up computers and laptops, but that does not make them any less sociable. we as a society tend to think that what truly forms and makes a person is what they like, or dislike as the case may be. i don’t care if you wear abercrombie & fitch as compared to the person who chooses to buy vintage clothing from the salvation army. it doesn’t matter because none of those interests shape your own persona. they simply reflect your persona.

in life, you either want to be unique or you want to be the same as everyone else, conformist or non-conformist. that’s where those two overused terms are birthed. it doesn’t really matter in the end which side you decide to play for because the winners are not graded on who they wanted to be but on who they were to other people.

interests and hobbies do not a person make. a person makes them. you gets?

if not, then step off.