Why should I be like everyone else?

Question

I was a teenager once. Believe it or not. And there was a large amount of peer pressure to conform. But now, being an adult, I still get peer pressure to conform. I don't want to join any "groups", or be like everyone else. It is not rebellion. It is not the desire to be different. I just want to be me. Unique. Like you if you choose. What do you think?

Answer 1

You, conform? Don't make me fly to AZ. and spank you. That low humidity is terrible on my skin. I love a tropical climate. Meet me in Hawaii.

Answer 2

I seem to recall in my psych class that the definition of being abnormal is to be outside of the acceptable norms. But yet, to me, being willing to accept yourself for being different is the very height of a healthy persona.

Maybe that's the key here---is it more important to conform or to be comfortable with who you are? Even if that means that some people will not be comfortable with your individuality.

You keep on playing those 8 tracks in our hi-tech DVD and further evolving technology world. Being an 8 track mind is what differentiates you from everyone else.

And I think most of us agree...we would not have you be anything else!

So, don't worry about conforming to society's rules. As long as what you do differently does not harm others, stay true to yourself.

Answer 3

Because if everyone was unique, they'd all be trying to be like you. ^_^

Hmmm....8 Track Mind as a teenager.... See, there was a need to conform when you were my age, because if you didn't, then you'd be eaten by a T. Rex or something............... Back in your day, you know, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, conformity was survival.

Oooh. I guess i'm what the British call cheeky. haha.

Answer 4

Perhaps the true power lies in being so unique that everyone wants to conform to YOU. The only way to stay in power would be to continuely change so that the "mob" would have to as well. Always playing catch up to your uniqueness. Hummmm...

Answer 5

Wow, can I relate. My hubby is always telling me "Why do you always have to be different". Answer - because I am me. And you 8track are you. We are unique. Anyone can follow the crowd and that mob mentality takes over. I think I've found a home here on R & S !

Answer 6

I have spent the last 36 years of my life trying to be what everyone else wanted me to be. And you know what, I'm miserable! I am learning who I really am and that I don't have to meet everyone else's expectations of what I should be. I have always marched to the beat of a different drum in my head, but fear of non-acceptance kept me from being my true self. As my husband told me, as long as you aren't breaking any laws, who cares what you do. No one else cares what you think about them, so stop caring so much about what others think. I am truly on the brink of just being me and finally knowing happiness!

Answer 7

You know you dont have to conform or join groups. most people do that to feel like their part of something.

Answer 8

Peer pressure to conform NEVER goes away. If you aren't "like everyone else", some people will either
-Think you're weird and avoid you
-Think you're weird and suck up to you
-Try to change you or
-Try to be like you
But thankfully, everyone isn't like that. My friends do think I'm weird, but they accept me and I do the same.

Answer 9

the pressure is direction oriented.
water pushes water through a pipe.
there are many routes, like streams and creeks spilling into a river, spilling into the sea, evaporating into cloud.
you are water, but only a molecule.
within that molecule, the universe which is you.
but the pushing?
not until we evaporate does that end

Answer 10

there is no good reason to be like everyone else...conformity sucks.

i was the same way...i had a couple of friends in school . that was enough.

it's kind of strange that now...here...there are a lot of people who are similar. not because we are conforming, but we seem to gravitate to like minds. i think that's why we all hang out in r&s.

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