Being different
@Ladanger (14582)
United States
May 10, 2022 7:28am CST
How many of you aren’t afraid of living a life others don’t understand? When I was a teenager, I worried too much that I wasn’t following the same trends as everyone else and wearing the same kind of shoes etc.
Now that I am older, I love being different. If all us act the same, how would we be able to be ourselves? What makes us unique? Sometimes your ideas can sound crazy to others because we don’t all have the same vision. Life is short.
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@JordanLader (4592)
• Sparta, Tennessee
10 May 22
I don't know, I guess I've never really fit in with any one crowd. I'm 31 now going on 32 and I'm okay with not fitting in. It took me a long time to be okay with it but I am now and at least that way I don't have to pretend. It's tiring to pretend.
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@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
10 May 22
@JordanLader it feels good to wear your own style and do what you love. I used to always people please. I’m glad that you accept and live life your own way.
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@JordanLader (4592)
• Sparta, Tennessee
10 May 22
@Ladanger Pretty much. It's so tiring trying to pretend or force yourself to be something.
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
10 May 22
I have never subscribed to the thought of mass conformity. I guess I have always followed my own path, even when it conflicted with popular opinion or the latest fads/trends or flavor of the month.
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@moffittjc (118435)
• Gainesville, Florida
11 May 22
@Ladanger I realized a while ago that there is only one of me in the world, so why should I act like somebody else? I should act like me instead. I'm glad you came to that realization as well. Just be you. Don't worry about what others think.
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@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
11 May 22
@moffittjc that’s what makes you, you. No one will ever be you 
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@sabtraversa (12924)
• Italy
12 May 22
Peer pressure hits hard when you're young, I always had a hard time liking what was fashionable.
Then you become an adult and focus on things that are more important, and standing out from the crowd can be a good asset. However, while I was likely to be different, I never felt that way. I thought all people were unique.
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@sabtraversa (12924)
• Italy
12 May 22
@Ladanger Yes, many people want to be accepted and think wearing the same stuff is enough, forgetting virtues and values matter too.
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@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
12 May 22
I remember growing up everyone in school would wear the same style and would make others feel bad if they didn’t dress the same. Now that I am an adult I enjoy being different on purpose. I never could relate to most people. Many want to be the same way. I don’t like following the crowd.
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@jefferson126 (3050)
• Shenzhen, China
11 May 22
I highly agree with you,we don't have to lead a same life with others,everyone is separate individual,have own paricular character.being different is very normal in my opinion.In addition,someone like criticize others having different lifestyle,we can ingore such persons.just go forward as you like.
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@jefferson126 (3050)
• Shenzhen, China
12 May 22
@Ladanger ,i agree,someone are jealous of your lifestyle,so they oppose you.if you knew this truth,don't care about such persons even more.
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@58lordstreet (1669)
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10 May 22
I tried to fit in but was not at all successful , I was basically an outcast at school, people were too embarressed to be friends with me even friends that I moved to secondary school with...I called one friend by his first name on the first day and that was the worse thing anyone could do
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@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
10 May 22
It’s best to have 1 or 2 real friends than being accepted by everyone. I know that as we get older we realize this. I can totally relate on feeling like an outcast
@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
10 May 22
@58lordstreet aww. That is such a nice picture. I don’t think you look like a girl in that picture at all. Some can be so mean
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@58lordstreet (1669)
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10 May 22
@Ladanger I used to spend ages looking in mirrors trying to see what other people saw - they all thought I looked like a girl , I could never see it
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@averygirl72 (37716)
• Philippines
11 May 22
I live a different life. I leave the job that I really find hard. I have not started my own family like others. I don't use Facebook for a long time. I don't follow the trend and the normal
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@averygirl72 (37716)
• Philippines
17 May 22
@Ladanger It is comforting to know it's okay to be different
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@ihasaquestion (8274)
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10 May 22
We are all misfits in our own way, and I guess it is alright to just be "different" from others or stray away from the idea of being "normal". To be honest, normal is just boring and I'd rather surround myself with eccentric but warm people rather than the normal and boring ones. So, don't worry..you're all good there.
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@Ladanger (14582)
• United States
10 May 22
I agree. I’m glad everyone here is being true to themselves thanks 
thanks 
@sharonelton (24973)
• Lichfield, England
10 May 22
I'm a Christian and a lot of people don't understand that. I've been going to the same church now since I was 2. Well, for the first couple of years I was left with a baby sitter, but you know what I mean.
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@sharonelton (24973)
• Lichfield, England
11 May 22
@Ladanger Yes. It was hard at school when people started calling me a happy clappy and a holy roller.
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@MarieCoyle (28478)
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11 May 22
I think we are all made differently. We need to stress to our children that it is perfectly fine to march to your own drummer, and not follow the crowd. Some people seem to have no mind of their own, they just follow blindly and may as well be led around by a nose ring.
Agree, if we were all the same, how boring would that be? Life, as you say, is very short. Follow your heart and go your own way.
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@MarieCoyle (28478)
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11 May 22
@Ladanger
I hope that our youth will be brave enough to make their own pathway in life, too.
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@Javialex14 (31)
• United States
11 May 22
I 100% agree with you. It’s good to be unique and different from the others. It shouldn’t matter wether we have to follow trends or not. We choose what we wanna do, not them.
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@GardenGerty (157552)
• United States
11 May 22
I have always been different and never have fit in. I could not afford it if I wanted to.
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that’s the right name for it.
@snowy22315 (169940)
• United States
11 May 22
I wouldn't know, don't think I have ever been part of a crowd.
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@RebeccasFarm (86757)
• United States
10 May 22
I am glad you feel this way for we can't live any other way..we are all different.
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@RasmaSandra (73408)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
11 May 22
I will repeat what I always say I am still crazy after all these years and proud of it, It makes life much more interesting being just me and completely different from everybody else,
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
10 May 22
I have never minded being different.
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