While I was out in town this morning, I had a strange thought.

Are the people that call themselves "individual" really that different from others?
Like the guys that wear really tight jeans(ok, i'm not complaining about that..), dye their hair black, wear make up, and claim they are "individual" yet there are loads of people who dress exactly like them.

It's the same for most people that say they dress "individually" when they buy their stuff from a shop. A shop that lots of other people probably shop at. And buy the exact same item. I mean, I understand it if they customise it a little. But other than that..?!

I don't know what made me have these thoughts, but it has been bugging me for a while.

Am I the only one that notices this?!

I see what youre saying Laura.

I mean I wear what I like.... I look the way I do because I like it not because fashion says I should, however I do buy fashionable things... but I wouldnt class myself as fashionable.... I would say I have individual taste but I would describe myself as individual either!

Hopefully you can make sense of what I've just written and you know what I mean LOL

We are social animals and we need to conform to a degree to be socially accepted but on the other hand we need to be noticed and individuality plays a role there. But in the end its a balance between those two things that leaves you in your comfort zone and that's what it is all about: You being in your comfort zone with others and yourself!

Had a long winded answer ready but as an individual could'nt be bothered I'm me your you so there we are...

There's only one "group" of people who like to claim they're noncomformist and "individual" in my eyes, that's goths.

It's ironic, seeing as no true individual can ever belong to a "group".

It's part of a psychological trait in them that is usually brought on by some inexplicable isolation from their parents. Usually their parents are decent, don't even treat their kids like rubbish - and yet they get the urge to create their own "identity".

As much as they'd like to deny this, it's usually a matter of sexual confusion, as well as difficulty integrating into a social group.

I respect their decision to live how they want, but I find it pathetic how they view the world with such disregard. As if they have any right to find flaw in something they haven't helped create.

Oooh. Deep and meaningful. Slightly spiteful. I must be tired...

**pops head in ... sees a doppleganger ... scuttles back out!**

I am an individual, I just look like, and behave like hundreds of other individuals

i think everyone has individuality, its just the degree in which they have it... i mean the only thing that pisses me off is when ppl pretend to be something theyre not, then they lose all credit in my books and they are the elast individual ppl on earth

I understand that everybody is different.

But i'm finding it difficult to understand that all these people are trying to look different to everybody else..but in fact look the same?!

Laura, i just think that everyone is their own person, and feel they are individually different from all others, dont u feel you are individually dif from others in certain ways. My life style, past life has made me unique is some ways and as i tell Tony i sure in the hell am totally dif from the women he has been with which he totally agrees. lol