“A secret to happiness is to be as weird as you like, and the wrong people will leave the party but the right ones will join the dance.”
Weird. Weird. Weird.
We all live in a yellow submarine. Well, I do at least, and that’s pretty weird.
Kids are pretty weird, but they lose their weirdness as they try fitting in with others as they “grow up.”
Conformity. Conformity. Conformity.
Many of us are taught to conform. To “obey or else,” and that almost always takes our uniqueness away from us.
People who are different almost always get ridiculed and made fun of by “normal” conformists – who have lost themselves in order to fit in.
“They laugh at me for being different. I laugh at them for being all the same.”
Maybe there can be a balance between fitting in and being your own person. 50/50 60/40 70/30 80/20 90/10, or whatever makes you live what you believe in.
It’s okay to fit in, and it’s okay to be weird.
With Ken Thompson 