back to school

Original post date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008


back to school

I spent all day in lectures today - from 9:15am to 7:15pm. Wondering around today I had some weird thoughts and this is one of them....

....it is a weird combination that most students try for...this is all students and really it falls on to most all people in a crowd.

I was walking around and I saw this normal guy with a safari hat on. I then saw a girl with just the tips of her bangs dyed pink. A guy that had on clothes that were a bit dated, not too old, khaki's, reebocks, and a plaid shirt, but he looked out of place amongst the other "hipper" students. And then I saw a reflection of myself in a window.

We all have the desire to be individuals, to be different, to be noticed, to be our true selves or at least who we think we are.

And then we all have the desire to not be noticed, to not be different, to fit in with the crowd because we think that will make us liked.

It was interesting to step back and see this phenomena and to be very much a part of it since I was older than most of the people around me and I am trying to not stand out too much and not be the old guy in class, but not try to hard to be young either.

And then I walked into my psychology class and started to study behavior....