You always hear people say that, “You’ll be accepted by being yourself,†right? Well,… IT’S WRONG!!! People would only accept you by being like everyone else. They always say that, you’re an anti-social freak or a messed up person am I wrong. Should we live up to other people’s expectation? Should they accept you by using you? Should you change yourself because you’re desperate to be accepted and to speak out on your own? That’s the quest/journey that I never accomplished from my life and still now. I do know that there are others that are doing the same. I understand. The confusion, the depression, and the emotions that flow inside you and can’t be described into mostly anything. So far nothing in our world can change. So I ask you this, is there a way and, Will We Ever Be Accepted? Or, will everything continue the way it is.
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Yes, you will be accepted.
Of course you must “be yourself”
Who else could you be?
And then you can work on accepting yourself.
And when you have accepted you,
That will make two of us,
For I already accept you, as you are.
to “be like everyone else” is to surrender your identity and your freedom of choice … people that follow rush limbaugh are know as “dittoheads” – in other words copycats, clones … rush Limbaugh has the identity and is the original known quantity (as detestable as I find him) everyone else is just an anonymous drone that thinks and acts as his surrogate – they don’t have an original thought and their actions re at his direction. they parrot all his ideological talking points, like … well … a parrot.
It’s natural to gravitate towards people with similar likes and habits – football players hag with football players, smokers hang with smokers etc. … there’s nothing wrong with that … but when you art doing thing you really don’t like just to “fit in” will make you unhappy and it will show to those that have a genuine interest in the topic/activity you are faking – they will feel patronized and they will dislike you.
don’t give up you originality and freedom to become assimilated and anonymous. everyone remembers the original … the one that “stands out”. think of a parade of a marching band or a platoon of soldiers … who do you remember instantly … the horn player 4 rows back or the conductor/drum major? do you remember the 3rd soldier in the 6th row or the platoon leader?
in short, you are certainly free to like and do any and all things that others do … but NEVER compromise your individuality just to “fit in”
jigsaw dawg
The only person capable of really accepting the real you is you.
A pragmatic action is to seek out and spend time with those who have the closest matching mindsets and interests to yourself.
Which will make running the gauntlet considerably easier.
Mimicry to fit in basically makes a person a shell.
Some have no problem being shells but obviously this is not your path.
Being an individual is a tough road. But a rewarding one as well.
Quite a few of the electronic things we have today were inspired by, idealized by, and invented by Nikola Tesla originally.
Others took credit and benefitted because his interests lied elsewhere.
As more information is unearthed , Tesla is seen as the innovator and the others just sycophants.
You want to be Edison or Westinghouse, or do you want to be Tesla?