Being Different - A Blessing or a Curse?
...nt to be accepted the way we are, but as mentioned before, the society makes its own limits here. Although it is not the middle ages any more and no-one is burnt as a witch in balefire, those who are just “too liberal”, “too gay” or “too interested in learning maths”, will be slowly, but securely edged out from the others. People with mental or physical disabilities are not the issue here, it’s completely another topic. Whom I am talking about are just the usual people who, for some reason, are considered being too different from the general standards. Actually I think we all feel different from other people to some extent because we experience ourselves from the inside and others from the outside. But when we feel that we are unable to fulfil the standards given by our society and if our insecurity is noticed, should we just isolate ourselves from the society before it isolates us? Is it normal to be gay, to write poetry on your free time or wear clothes that are “so old-fashioned” or “too black/red/yellow”? Are we now cursed forever or should we feel blessed for not staying with the crowd and marching the beat of our own drummer? In my opinion, there is actually no absolute answer for that. I am sure there are certain people who feel confident and free for not being trammelled by the limits of the society even with the price of being jeered out. Yes, laughed out. But those few people understand that this laugh is actually a quite bitter one – the society certainly likes to edge its “weird” members out, but does not really accept them to go by their own free will. Such behaviour shakes its pillars. But just...