Common? Come on...

Hi. So, in truth, I wasn't able to do a post in a week. I did say, however, that I would try. Unfortunately, I didn't succeed but what matters is I'm typing again. Let's go straight to business.

Common? Come on...

I tried...! It's not half a good title but I guess it'll do. So... Common?

Something common is something you see everyday, or almost everyday. It's the usual thing. Right? I think you know what I'm saying. It's definitely the same thing as normal. You know. It's a regular thing. It's NOT at all special.

Hey, normal and common, they aren't by any chance different, I think. My teacher told us they're the different, and I think he's wrong. He told us that what is common isn't normal. Don't you think he's wrong? He likes promoting his school, but if he promotes his school, and what he tells us is wrong, wouldn't that make his school stupid?

If my definition is wrong, feel free to criticize, I don't care. That's not even my focus.

You wake up everyday, and go about your own businesses, and there are things you encounter... Which are... Common. These common things, in society, sometimes they become trends.

Trends are standards people go with because most people go with it too. You might be able to call it a bandwagon, but I'm not so sure about definitions so I'll play safe.

When you don't "go with the flow", people usually think you're stupid, weird or "not cool". When that happens, the "not cool" guy loses his composure and then himself. He goes with the trend because he thinks he has no choice. He doesn't want to be the odd guy. That, actually, is a common thing, we all adjust if everyone thinks that what we're doing is wrong.

Isn't that right? We care so much about what people think is right that we forget our own side. We forget to listen to ourselves. So to correct my teacher, it's not "what's common is not normal", it's "what's common and normal isn't always right".

Again.

"What's common and normal isn't always right."

If you'd cooperate, please open your Notepad or Microsoft Word. Type it. Ten times.

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Did you do it? If you did, that's cool. If you didn't, you're right. You didn't have to.

There's a big problem about this trend thing. Like I said, you'll lose your composure and then yourself. How do you lose yourself?

A guy walks along a hallway with ladies in the chairs at the sides of the hallway. He sees a candy wrapper on the ground, stops. He was about to pick up the wrapper when all the beautiful ladies watching him started laughing. Noticing that, he instead ties his shoelaces. He pretended to do that.

Without the trend that guys who do that are weird, he could've done a small thing to save earth. Unfortunately though, he doesn't want to be laughed at. He lost his truthfulness to himself, because he knows that it was right, but because of the trend, he comes up with the conclusion that it's wrong.

Whenever you go out and present yourself to the public, be ready to be stormed by trends that might alter your personality. Protect your own beliefs.

How do you do that? Take your time to think. Solidify your own opinions and figure out what truly is correct. Figure out what really has to be done. If you know in yourself that what you're doing is right, when you go out and go public, it'll take more than a trend to bring you down. You might be even good enough to stand for yourself and inform everyone they're wrong.

I'm brave enough to say that people who exchange their own ideas for trends are weak. Only those who believe in their own ways are strong, and my God, you can not survive in this world if you're too weak. You'll have no identity if you adjust to trends too much. It's as if there's no real you.

Common? C'mon....

Thanks for reading. Hope you enjoyed.