Being different

I don't know, I guess I've never really fit in with any one crowd. I'm 31 now going on 32 and I'm okay with not fitting in. It took me a long time to be okay with it but I am now and at least that way I don't have to pretend. It's tiring to pretend.

I have never subscribed to the thought of mass conformity. I guess I have always followed my own path, even when it conflicted with popular opinion or the latest fads/trends or flavor of the month.

@Ladanger I am also different and have always been and I look at it as I am unique because I am not like others and want to be myself.

I highly agree with you,we don't have to lead a same life with others,everyone is separate individual,have own paricular character.being different is very normal in my opinion.In addition,someone like criticize others having different lifestyle,we can ingore such persons.just go forward as you like.

I completely agree with you I love being different. I love being an atypical

I tried to fit in but was not at all successful , I was basically an outcast at school, people were too embarressed to be friends with me even friends that I moved to secondary school with...I called one friend by his first name on the first day and that was the worse thing anyone could do

I wouldn't know, don't think I have ever been part of a crowd.

I live a different life. I leave the job that I really find hard. I have not started my own family like others. I don't use Facebook for a long time. I don't follow the trend and the normal

That’s true. Life is short so live the life you choose.

We are all misfits in our own way, and I guess it is alright to just be "different" from others or stray away from the idea of being "normal". To be honest, normal is just boring and I'd rather surround myself with eccentric but warm people rather than the normal and boring ones. So, don't worry..you're all good there.

I have always been different and very proud of it. I don't want to be like anyone else.

I'm a Christian and a lot of people don't understand that. I've been going to the same church now since I was 2. Well, for the first couple of years I was left with a baby sitter, but you know what I mean.

I think we are all made differently. We need to stress to our children that it is perfectly fine to march to your own drummer, and not follow the crowd. Some people seem to have no mind of their own, they just follow blindly and may as well be led around by a nose ring. Agree, if we were all the same, how boring would that be? Life, as you say, is very short. Follow your heart and go your own way.

I 100% agree with you. It’s good to be unique and different from the others. It shouldn’t matter wether we have to follow trends or not. We choose what we wanna do, not them.

I have always been different and never have fit in. I could not afford it if I wanted to.

If you live your life so people will understand. You are not being true to yourself and you will wake up one day with regrets. God made us all different. We are responsible for our own happiness. It is not our responsibility to be concerned about what someone else might think. Good for you for following your own path. That is one thing I always admired about being older. Now when I make decisions for myself. Who cares what someone else thinks.

I am glad you feel this way for we can't live any other way..we are all different.

I don't care what others think, I can't stop them from that. So, I do my own thing and make up my own mind.

I will repeat what I always say I am still crazy after all these years and proud of it, It makes life much more interesting being just me and completely different from everybody else,

I have never minded being different.