Posted by Questionmark on July 13, 2010, at 0:46:06
In reply to Re: WEIRDO - If 1 more person calls me weird..... » rculater, posted by former poster on July 12, 2010, at 14:04:51
AH! I want to say to you-- both of you-- " **** them. So what if you are not the same old typical conformist clone of everyone else! Thank GOODNESS for people who are unique." And maybe some things about being yourself and all that. But,.. I know how difficult it is to be in a society that... well it's like the famous e.e. cummings quote:
"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
Great quote. But it IS hard. As hard as he describes. So hard that my guess as to the percentage of people who win or even continue to fully fight that battle is considerably less than one percent-- depending on how you define "being yourself." Everyone succumbs. I've succumbed. I stayed on Nardil for years because it made me a happier, more sociable, less ruminative over-analytical sensitive & emotional person-- i.e. it made me more normal. I chose to become and stay... a different person. Of course a lot of it was because the overall mental suffering was less and many qualities of happiness were greater. But still i was a willing accomplice to being "normalized." OK i still wasn't normal on Nardil but more so. Shoot! I don't wanna talk about myself. Forgive me i'm bad at explaining myself concisely. ...
My point is that, well I'd like to encourage you to not let yourselves be normalized. But i understand how exceedingly difficult-- for so many reasons-- that is, and that the rewards are not even clear. So do not feel guilty if you must succumb. Just remember what you knew.
But good luck and God freaking bless if you try to keep fighting the battle.
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