corymeyer

Yesterday I stumbled across the most refreshing words I have read in a long time.

Everyone likes to feel special. I know I do. Whenever one of my friends remembers some random trivia about me, I always smile and think,"Look at me, I'm so original and everyone knows it."

But I could not be more wrong. As Brad Pitt says in Fight Club, the most popular unpopular movie ever made, "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake." I don't know about beautiful, but he's right about the unique snowflake part. It's impossible for anyone to be different in the true sense of the word, and yet a lot of people seem to be blind to this simple fact.

It's natural enough for someone to want to think they're different than everyone else. It's comforting to think each person has something to offer the world that no one else can.

But how realistic is it to think that six billion people don't constantly overlap? There's nothing wrong with this, but for some reason this knowledge bothers people, so they either ignore it or fight against it.

- Opening remarks in the article Individuality is only in our head by Christine DelliBovi. Bravo!