Being Different

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We want to be different. We want to make our own mark. And we want to be distinguished from the rest. To do that, sometimes we think too out of the box. And yes, sometimes it catches other's attention, and more often, only for few sweet seconds do we get their attention.

Avant-garde. Not too many get close to being avant-garde. So many of us still try to make our own avant-garde character. However, bell curve shows most of us still fall in the ordinary taste, the common, the popular, the mainstream. Who, then, are the real avant-garde people? They're the outliers. They probably don't even know they have that character.

Inside of the box. With more people trying to think too out of the box, wouldn't it be more different now to think inside the box? I've peeked into the box, and I see a lot of interesting ordinariness. I think, the ordinary is getting less and less explored that we become unfamiliar to it. 

And while we put so much effort in trying to be different, are we making an effort to make a difference?