I actually got tears in my eyes reading this post. What an amazing lesson on so many levels - that the art created from your own heart is so much better than so-called "perfect copies", that IT IS OK TO DO IT YOUR OWN WAY and you are always free to do so...
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Originally Posted by Scorpio  I don't totally agree with the larger message that the 'normal' bears are all secretly envious of the 'different' bear. Sometimes the 'normal' majority has accurate beefs and criticisms towards a 'different' person. I think it's wishful thinking to believe that just because you're different and people don't understand you that you're a courageous trailblazer by default. It's like the reject kids in school. Some where unfairly ostracized, but some of them were there at least in part because they were dirty, disruptive, and anti-social... |
I will just say, that in HS I was definitely an oddball - I didn't fit into any "group" and didn't try to. I made my own clothes. I drew blue feathers and roses all over my jeans and wrote poetry on my sneakers...and I have had DOZENS of people I went to HS with (I'm in my mid-30's now) come up to me, REMEMBERING my name (though, I usually have to ask theirs) and say, "I always looked up to you, wished I could be like you. You just did your thing and didn't care what anybody thought!"
I WAS a "bright bear" and while I took a lot of getting made fun of -- on the outside -- on the inside they DID secretly admire me...of course, I didn't know this at the time, and it was pretty lonely, but SOOOO worth it to always and still be MYSELF.