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A SENSE OF INDIVIDUALITY

Essay By: jadey oneil
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“I don’t say what everyone else said. I have my own thoughts waiting to be conveyed.”

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Submitted: May 2, 2008    Reads: 39    Comments: 3    Likes: 2   


One simple circumstance can be interpreted in various ways. Things, no matter how typical they may appear, can be complicated in the manner they are taken into account. An unspoken word may be totally different once it is voiced out. Many people know this but only few who come to acknowledge the thought. Although there is uniformity in the way people process information but the reaction varies based on different factors involved. This may range from one’s experiences to one’s character. These areas, which are too broad to be put into discussion, may take an open mind to reach human comprehension. Not many people give a high regard on this idea but almost everybody presents harsh judgment on one’s response to certain things. We don’t want to be criticized yet, we, all, react as critics. This irony of things best explains the statement that even ordinary things get too bizarre at times, reasonably strange, so to speak.

More often than not, people show common reaction but share different sense of acceptance. At very rare instances, only fewer of those who attempt get to find the guts to deviate from usual. Undeniably, this trend shows poor and unproductive expression of oneself. This is a representation on how we lack the capability to get in touch deeper within ourselves and convey what is there that needs to be out in the open. We fear rejection yet, we deprive people of acceptance about their own outlook in a certain situation. This widens the chasm behind people’s inability to stay unique and to stand by a principle they believe in.

Although action comes from words and words from thoughts, these media of expression can’t seem to go together in coordination. It, however, appears that each undergoes a filtration process which is designed to fit in publicly. Thus, we tend to misunderstand and to mislead each other to what is not. This has become a silent truth that is still lurking in the depth of our mind. Consequently, we are not helping others to get a better grasp about contemplating on the idea of seeing and taking everything from our own perspective. No one is interested to touch this topic and nobody will.

It becomes a risk speaking our heart and mind out. We have continually lived behind someone else’s shadows. We are constantly at war against revealing our feelings and thoughts. Everyone is sharing the same battle yet nobody has ever recognized that. This is not as quite simple as the way we see it.We force ourselves to get used to it.Thus, we make things complicated and it’s just too funny that we seem to let things appear as natural and as easy as they shouldn’t be.
We lose sense of individuality in some areas where we allow the impact of influence in us. This change leads us go where the crowd goes and it deprives us to appreciate the slightest difference we find in every day’s life encounter. This further lets us view of others’ opinion as strange and unacceptable whenever they do not meet our expectation.


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Comments:

It is so true, some people blurt out whatever comes to their minds and some people are afraid to say what is in their minds for fear of hurting others. Some people don't say for fear and some blurt out their feeling lashing out at everyone because they themselves are hurting inside.

Posted: May 9, 2008

Author Comment:

Evidently true. ^^
Thanks! :-)

i wish, people use words cautiously...Words r so powerful...they can bring tears to somebody's eyes ....and one should not hurt others with words....
This one is so nice and magical.

this shows ur depth in understanding human nature so closely. I salute ur parents.

Posted: May 26, 2008

Author Comment:

Thank you! *smiling*

It does seem hard at timesto maintain some sense of indiviuality. For most of my life i tried to blend in...then one day i kind of woke up. Realized what people think carries no weight, they will die, just like me. People are very different, but deep down, each and everyone of us has had the same handful of thoughts; how do i look? what will they think? once you realize that you could probably where a giant chicken suit to the grociery store and not care:) people will remember for a day then forget. For the most part they will be more happy that someone out there is breaking waves in their pool of normality.

Posted: Aug 20, 2008

Author Comment:

Perhaps, that's how things are in actuality. The sense of individuality doesn't or will never exist as we have long been exposed to conform with the society. This may be the reason why it's quite difficult to deviate from usual. Well, those are just my thoughts. ^^

I appreciate your being able to read and comment on this writing. Thanks a bunch! :-)



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