Dear ms faith,
I agree with you completely. Why should we hide our Strangeness. Why should we conform to the typical and mundane. Be different. Be Strange. Get lost. And bring as many as you can with you.
Hello my darlings,
Ms faith has brought a touchy subject to my attention. Stereotypes.
We all have them, and we all believe them to one degree of another. They're just another shlop of brain ooze thats seeped into even our Strange minds. It's stained our precious view point and tainted our ever growing minds, but Strange as we may be we are only human and we cannot help it.
Stereotypes were created in order for humans to feel comfortable with others and even themselves. If someone is a certain 'type' they instantly belong and don't need to worry about being outcasted by that group of people, but are completely comfortable hating someone simply because they belong to a diffrent group. But the minute someone steps foot outside one of our catagories, we instantly reject them and think something is wrong or off about them, simply because we are not used to new and unique things.
Really, as awful as sterotypes are, they tend to be nessecary for basic human function in an environment such as highschool or college/university. I myself am facinated by human nature and tend to study it quite closely. The things you can learn by someones basic movmemts or mannerisims are quite astounding.
And as much as I wish I could reject the stereotypes that have contaminated my mind, everytime I see a person they instantly fall into one of the many catagories that have dribbled into my subconcious.
You're so right...It's near impossible not to be a stereotype. 'Unique' has almost vanished off of the face of our planet! It up to people like us, Strange People, to hold onto Unique and never let it die. Some can say that it's silly to worry about issues such as this, but it's truely serious. You know how in SiFi movies they say that robots will be like humans in the future? They're wrong; humans will be like robots.
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