Everyone is striving to be different and special, above the rest. I think that too many times we are told that we are unique or need to be special when we are so very alike. Being different is not any better or worse than being the same. I agree that everyone is different in certain ways, superficial ways, but I strongly believe that we are all the same in general. You can see people struggle and try so hard to be different when that's the most conformist thing to do, is try to be different because everyone is trying to be different, special. Maybe they aren't trying to be special, maybe they are just trying to belong because they are different? They try to belong by starting to sport the tribal garb and signifiers of certain groups like anarchist, goths, emos, hipsters, gangsters, preppys. But then sometimes you meet those people and they are just so completely different from you that there is no way you can relate to them. So which is it? Same or different? Clearly the answer is both. As with anything else human, or for that matter arguably anything in the universe, it's a contradiction. Everyone is different and unique and yet at the core the same. Infuriating isn't it? Thinking about this reminds me about Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Maybe everyone is the same until you get to the orange part, and then everyone starts to differentiate like stem cells in embryos? Right now I would say I'm still stuck at the orange and yellow sections of the pyramid. But then you also have to take into consideration the psychology of people's upbringing. Then you have to consider gene expression and peoples unique biology. And so many other things. As my Mom loves to say "Life's so complicated huh." oh she is so wise.
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