22.3.10

New Shoes part. 2

On consideration. What I described, is the looking-glass effect. It's only an example of people trying on other things to see what gets the positive feedback from their peers. The more compliments, the more positive. In retrospect, I suppose we've all done it. I can definitely say I have. I would have never thought to get this haircut if not for a friend of mine who had it first a while ago. We've all made jokes to others that were first told to us. 

We discussed it today. How no one is truly original, because we all take bits and pieces of the people we're around the most. We all conform to each other. That's why cliques are the way they are. Because the people who hang out are similar within that clique, they all act and dress similarly... It's ironic to think that so many of these cliques think to defy the common concept of image. To not conform, though they're all conformists to each other and to the other people who are also attempting to resist conforming to whatever it is that everybody seems to be doing...

I think that everyone is unique, though. Although we're all using the same traits of everyone, we're all different amounts of those traits that make us different. 

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