Are you a non conformist?

Hi ronaldinu, I don't know about conforming but if that means changes, well I hate changes, I like things the way they are. Tamara

I do not set myself up to be a non conformist but I also do not try and be a conformist. I live my life the way I want to live it, the way it suits me. Sometimes that appears that I conform and sometimes that looks as though I do not conform. I do not plan to do either just what seems right to me. I am now and always will be an individual who does as pleases her. I have a partner who supports me in this, I doubt I would be happy with any guy who did not support my right to be me. I know some people choose to be one or the other for their own reasons but for me everything is purely individual taste.

Is there a price to pay? I don't think so. I have always had my own ideas on every issue under the sun.Many are so old fashioned, like my idea of marriage, that it is unheard of this day and age.But I don't push or argue just to argue. I just reserve the right to be different. I think there would be price to pay trying to conform to the norm. Maybe because I am An American and we come from people who made it a point to break the rules. We have written down our birth right, " The Pursuit of Happiness" Or maybe it is because I am stubborn but I would Never conform just to fit in. I would feel like I was not being true to myself and I would get depressed.

I used to be a strong non-comformist, but probably not so much now. As a Zen practitioner I think this may be the thing because I tend to see life and the way people react to it, a lot different to what I used to before I got into Zen. Zazen (Zen meditation) tends to deepen this attitude.

I am neither a conformist or a non conformist. I just be myself. Some of the things I like to do are considered conforming and some would be considered non conforming. I do not choose to be one or the other I simply choose to do things the way I want to. I do not care what people in society think is the right or wrong thing and I do not do things to please another unless that other is my partner. I refuse to conform just because someone else says that you should and in my view deliberately being non conformist just because it is non conformist is conforming to non conformists.

To some degree I consider myself a non conformist. But, on the other hand, we all conform to things in society in order to be able to make our lives a bit more bearable.

I am very far to left. I shall never conform.

The price that I have to pay for being a non conformist is not fitting in the way most people do, but that is OK with me. If I had a desire to fit in, I would not be a non-conformist. A lot of people think I lead a really lonely life, but I do not. I'd rather be me, than have to deal with a lot of things that I just don't believe in.

It's not a matter of there being a "Prize" for not conforming, It's about knowing there are other options available that are just as valid and important then what the mainstream believes and follows. Being a non-conformist means not following the heard and dancing to the beat of your own drum. As long as it harms no one then it shouldn't be a problem. I believe what I want and not a single soul can change that. I think you were asking if there was a "price" to pay for not conforming ( could be wrong)Well, In some ways' yes there is a price you have to pay, as with everything else in life, but it's worth it!

I definitely am a noncomformist and I've been one all my life. I've always been the square peg in the round hole and have paid dearly for it too. Every job I've ever had I've been fired from because I just never seemed to fit in and I was constantly bullied by my co-workers and even the management. Purrs, Catwoman=^..^= & Mija

I have been non-comformist all my life, not from any deliberate choice but simply because I find most of the standard societal norms ridiculous and restrictive. I liked the Emerson quote in the first response, and that's to a larfe extent how I see it. Yet there are clearly thinking people who do conform, so who knows, perhaps non-conformism is an innate character trait. But there is a price to pay (I assume you meant price not prize). We become the 'outsiders' of society. Certainly in my case I have been unable to make many good friends over a lifetime, and my 'deviance' from the norm has cost me several friendships and relationships over the years. And in my case, as part of my deviance is to reject the social economic norms to a large degree, it has cost me in terms of economic security in my dotage. On the other hand, I wouldn't have wanted things to be much different. I have made three or four bad mistakes in my life, not necessarily to do with my non-conformism, that I regret and which have seriously affected the course of my life, but there is enormous excitement to be found in being non-comformist, side roads to explore, and memories to cherish. Lash