| Quite a lot of people believe that in this world there | | | | "rebellion" without a real cause, a real objective - |
| are conformists, a.k.a. "mindless sheep", the people | | | | they just want to shock others, to be noticed. They |
| who do things because "that's what everyone does" | | | | try to affirm their identity by opposing whatever |
| - and, conversely, don't do something because | | | | they see around them - no matter if whatever they |
| "nobody else is doing it". People also believe that | | | | see is right or wrong. |
| there are non-conformists, who supposedly are the | | | | A "non-conformist" - or, rather, an individualist - does, |
| opposite of the above. So far, so good. | | | | instead, what he likes, what he believes is right, what |
| But a lot of people make a big mistake here - they | | | | he wants. If he does something completely unique, |
| believe that non-conformists are people who are | | | | he doesn't care; if he does something everyone else |
| intentionally different, people who do something | | | | does, he doesn't care. What others do is up to them, |
| because others don't, and don't do something | | | | but he chooses for himself. |
| because others do. In other words, people who | | | | For instance, I like a music genre that is completely |
| consciously try to be "different". | | | | unfashionable, that almost no friend of mine likes, |
| And that's not "non-conformism" at all. | | | | that isn'e ever heard on the radio. Yet I love |
| Trying to be different is really the same as trying to | | | | chocolate, which most people also love. Do I stop |
| be the same - it's living in function of others. It's | | | | listening to heavy metal to "fit in"? No. Do I stop |
| having no personality, no opinions, no tastes, no self. | | | | eating chocolate to be different, to "separate |
| What others do is the basis of what you do, | | | | myself"? Nope, that would be quite stupid. :) Both are |
| whether you copy it or oppose it. | | | | my tastes - whether others share them or not didn't, |
| Many teenagers (but it's not limited to them) err in | | | | and doesn't matter at all. |
| this way - one could call it their "rebel phase", but it's | | | | |