I 'n I Be De Same...

Mkay so when I was little it was cool to fit in, you know if you all had the same black and white converse with striped socks to match(I just made the socks up but you catch my drift), same lunch box,same lunch-it was the coolest thing if you were all basically carbon copies of each other. Now I have always been friends with the cool kids but I never fit in(I was the honorary cool kid in school)so I always considered myself an outsider-and I think what cemented this status is the fact that I never tried to rectify the situation- I stayed outside the circle on purpose. I learned later that this made me somewhat of a non conformist.
When I got older it became cool to be different-everyone claimed a tweak in character or appearance that separated them from their herd-which in turn made them all the more similar. I looked around and wondered what had happened to the matching outfits-now they were like a visual cacophony of random people trying to disassociate themselves with their former image and it still felt like they were conforming;just in a different mode....
And it just snowballed as I grew even older-now everyone is draped in scarves(in this hot Dallas weather) and super bright "vintage" clothes-you know the over sized jewelry,crazy hats, the glasses-yea the whole nine. And I'm still wondering if they understand that trying to be so different only makes them look the same. Their quest to find uniqueness especially since it doesn't come naturally to them only displays the latest trend-and it's tragic really,especially when these people sit back and talk about the people that blend into the crowd-no wait it's actually pretty hilarious...so my point is; is non conformism the latest form of conforming? If so how does one stay completely genuinely themselves and not look like a poser?
-the answer next week-
Peace.....