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Originally Posted by recluse
Sadly, my family was so conformist, they should have been issued uniforms. My mother once told me the police would view me as a serial killer suspect.
I'm doing good. I did initially put up a false front, but now I accept that I am an outsider. I think it gives me a better perspective of the world. Hell, right now, chatting with you, I'm happy!
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We're all outsiders looking in at what we think is everyone else in the warm cozy room, toasting marshmallows...
I don't know who the hell those folk are, I think they're actually figments of our collective imagination.
I think we're all serial killer suspects, too, in one way or another... so your mother was right. *snort*
I have another theory... that there are two basic types of people in the world. Those instinctively oriented toward community, and those instinctively oriented outward. That community-oriented folk will often focus on conformity as a means of promoting community (like a wolf pack driving out a weird-coloured member - does that actually happen or have I been reading too much ill-informed fiction?), whereas outward-oriented folk will often focus on 'doing their own thing'. The community-minded provide cohesiveness, the outward-minded provide the change and chaos required for growth. Both need the other - but lack of understanding between the two do a LOT of damage. (I doubt this theory is at all original, it sounds too plausible!
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