Talk about the most alternative person you have ever seen!
By lcainiao
@lcainiao (201)
China
September 2, 2009 8:33pm CST
The first time I realize the word'alternative' about people's character, is when I read a story 'The Man in a shell' by Anton chekhov. The portraying of the conservative, nostalgic, out-dated, timid and suspicious people in tis story is vivid and unforgettable.
It is certainly a negative image. When we begin to experience the society, we find that we always meet many kinds of people-bohemian, mechanical, cynical, or ludicrous, all kinds...But they all have a common characteristic-we can tell them distinctly from others amony a large crowd. There is a word on their body-different-which make people laugh or feel angry.
They maybe also very clever, or have great wisdom though appearing slow-witted, or are nothing but the ordinary people. Anyhow, they live in the world with their unique mind.
How about the most alternative person you have ever seen?
1 response
@becky01 (81)
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3 Sep 09
Some people when you see them seem to try to be "alternative" and I think when they do this it simply makes them less alternative. Always trying to be something simply to get looks or evoke a response.
I'm not sure that I have met anyone who I would classify as completely alternative, of course everyone is different in some ways but does that make them alternative?
I would consider myself to be alternative from that perspective, I know nobody like me, in my group of friends nobody thinkgs the same, has the same view points, acts the same etc. but no doubt there are many people out there like me. People can seem alternative when they are with disimilar people, a fish out of water perhaps, but when anyone you would consider to be "alternative" is with someone similar to them then they instantly lose their alternativeness. Can anyone really be alternative in this sense?
