We live in a confused society it seems people are supposed to be successful but to be successful in most jobs you have to out perform the other person or group that is doing the same thing that you are doing.At the same time people are focused to heavily on individuality what ever that means none really is an individual everyone conforms to a given groups rules you have no choice humans naturally distrust any person that does not conform to the rules of a given group.
Many people are focused so heavily on not making anyone feel bad about something or offending someone that they go overboard.If we keep going down the road we are on(or that many are on) we are headed for trouble.
Every person is an individual but every person also conforms to some given groups rules for fear that they be outcast of the group they wish to be accepted by which to me makes the argument that kids should express individuality by wearing clothes is a stupid argument they will still separate into clicks no matter what.So is the idea of no contact between kids at all during school so what if some other kid gets upset because he sees Billy and Joe hive five each other maybe he should try and make some friends instead of getting hurt by the site of two friends interacting.If the people you want to be friends with do not accept you because of the clothes you wear then they are unless anyway and even when wearing uniforms the kids will still group themselves they know whose parents have money and whose do not and all the other factors that form clicks.
One thing that I loved about high school(mine was a no uniform school) was my interaction with class mates.I did not follow the normal rules I was friends with people because I liked something about them not what what clothes they wore or how much money they had or what classes they where in.It was funny because some peers did not like me simply for this reason and some teachers did not either for the same reason.
It was the same in the military as well some people did not like me for that reason either more than likely because they knew that I knew that they where superficial.
Last edited by Stealhead; 03-24-12 at 02:23 PM.
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