" The hardest battle is to be nobody but yourself in a world that is doing its best , night and day, to make you like everybody else."
-- e.e. cummings(poet) (purposely in lower case)
could you guys sort of explain it and give a real example....
i think it means something like.. its really hard to be yourself when so many things such as peer pressure and commercials that show that skinny is what you should look like...----- so many things that try to influence you to be somthing ur not....
2006-09-26 21:02:59 · 5 answers · asked by ♥ hey! 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
For a poet, this means he is struggling to maintain free thought in a world of limits. Business managers call this 'thinking outside the box'. Society is dependent on rules and standards of behavior but advancement of ideas requires fresh and new thinking. A great comparison of free thinking vs. trained thought is to look at the FedEx sign and try to find the arrow. When you've grown fully frustrated by the search, ask a child to point out the arrow. I promise you, they will have no problem pointing it out.
Artists have to struggle against the trained thought to come up with fresh perspectives on life, colors, sounds, and behaviors. Thinking like the comedians like Gallagher or Foxworthy or Carlin is unique because they bring fresh perspectives on our behaviors.
For the rest of us, we have to survive by showing up to work on time, doing the work in a specified way, meeting the requirements of everyday life. We all have the same struggles for the most part and traditions and standards help us to work and live together. If everybody held out for out of the box lifestyles, we literally could not survive as a society. The most extreme examples of fitting in are found in countries like China or Iran. If you insist on acting according to your free thought in those societies you are not ostracized, you are condemned.
On the other hand we have our members of society that are so far the other way that to meet them on the street is frightening. Man who walks around in public literally screaming at his demons.
Great success or great condemnation can be found at only one end of this spectrum, but great happiness is found closer to the middle. Great oppression is found at the other end of the spectrum.
http://judgeright.blogspot.com
2006-09-26 21:30:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you have the right idea
2006-09-26 21:33:55 · answer #2 · answered by crazeebitch2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes - you have explained it perfectly .....
2006-09-26 21:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by bluebottle 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your thoughts are right. =D
2006-09-26 22:01:32 · answer #4 · answered by Fancyboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you got it .
2006-09-26 21:07:05 · answer #5 · answered by volksbank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋