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A twenty two year-old's view on life, death,
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4/3/2014 2 Comments Dare To Be DifferentFitting in is so overrated. If we all strove to be the same as everyone else life would be so boring. We also wouldn't have any artists. Can you imagine a world with no art? It is my belief that the key to happiness is just doing what makes you happy. It's really not that complicated. I feel like too often people follow the career paths that their family want for them just to please their parents or to be just "as good" as their extremely successful older sibling or other elder. Let me tell you, if I did everything in life to fit more into my family I would either be studying mathematics or engineering right now. No thank you. Instead I took the first step towards my own life when I went to Monty Tech. Both my other siblings went to Wachusett Regional High School, as did most others in my town, and nobody else in my family had gone to a tech high school. But I knew that it would help me in the career path I had planned for myself so I went. Best decision I ever made. Because I made it for myself. I did what would make me happy and make me my own person. The great thing that Monty Tech taught me was that I don't want to work in Culinary for the rest of my life. I wanted to study English and Film Studies. So now I go to college for that. I am a liberal arts major in a family full of Science, Math and Business majors. And I love it. The greatest ideas and revolutions in history happened because of people who wanted change, who refused to follow the status quo. Similarly the greatest ideas were thought of by people who wanted to break free from the confining limits of the 'norm'. Who wouldn't want to be the next Aristotle or the next Picasso? My greatest heroes and inspirations are people like Baz Luhrmann who's films have such a unique and distinctive style that you would know one of their films anywhere. So stop trying so hard to fit in all the time. If you are shopping for clothes and see something you like, get it. Don't stop and think, "what would people think if I wore this?". If you wanna wear bold red lipstick, do it. If you want to write a story unlike anything anyone has ever written, power to you! Our world would be no where without the people who dare to be different. There would be no such thing as progress. So put down that gossip magazine and go make yourself happy damn it! Because you just might make something of yourself one day, and it won't be because you tried as hard as possible not to stand out. Thank you for reading, Amanda Lucille Song of the DayBe Ok by Ingrid Michaelson Classic.
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Frankie
4/5/2014 06:28:22 am
Hey Amanda I know this is probably stupid but I get made funn at school cause I am shore is tht different or just getting made funn of cause I really
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Amanda
4/5/2014 01:21:15 pm
Hey Frankie! Embrace your shortness and don't let any of those other kids get you down! They're just making fun of other people because they are insecure about themselves, so don't worry about them. You're perfect the way you are and an amazing dancer!
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