Hi all,
This is a recent trend , which I have observed from my friends and friends of friends. It is obviously from the social networking media that I have figured out this.
The trend is to go out of normal and do something else. Be it in job or passion.
My views on this are more than complicated in this.
This is probably one of those grey area topics, where nobody could take a solid decision on it.
From my observation, people go against the crowd for the sake of uniqueness or just to get out of the day in day out routine life.
Sometimes I feel my life is going as per a written algorithm or script , that day in day out all weekdays invariably have almost a same schedule, and weekends have a separate schedule, same schedule across weekends.
This probably is a reason for trying out something else to get out of the routine life.
There is a small line between doing things differently due to a need or just for the sake of doing things differently, or to put it better for the sake of being unique.
Is it worthy always to go against the crowd and do something else for the sake of uniqueness.
On a deeper note, we think that the reason for such an activity is not just inspired in seeing others doing it. There is something more than that here.
One reason which I can think is that with education comes the ability to think , and the ability to ask questions, and hence questioning the beliefs of the society.
The problem lines in identifying where to question and where to not, or rather where to go with the crowd or where not to.
One common example of following the crowd is what we all did, schooling and then graduation and then a job/career , this is a sequence which everybody follows. There is no harm in it, and one should be fortunate enough to get all these things in proper time and quality.
The problem lies in questioning the parts of it, for instance which stream for graduation, which job to choose.
After finishing the board exams, most of students are given two options to choose, science or computer science , most of the time if the decision is taken by friends, a student decides on one after discussion with friends and most likely a minimum number of friends would have to choose the same stream. If the decision was taken by parents, they decide on their circle and follow the crowd again mostly. In the first case there is a chance that certain students may form the crowd, but in the second case the chances of it are pretty weak.
There are some things which one has to definitely follow the crowd and some which one has to differ. For instance gambling, there has to be one guy who takes in a risk,and makes the game interesting, if everybody gambles the same way, there is no gambling there !
So here one has to definitely break out of the crowd.
But the question whether to break out of the crowd or follow the crowd is not such a simple question, if it was , then there is no reason behind this post !
From my personal side, I have faced many of these things , one that I don't drink or smoke. It may be because my parents brought me up that way, it may be because I have seen people suffering who did that, it may be even because of variety of other reasons, which would definitely vary from person to person.
Among my friends circle, I have always been named as the guy who would not do it, who lives by rules, just because of this , that I don't smoke/drink. I took the decision to be away from it, and follow a different crowd than some of my friends. In this case again, its not a simple question, as there will be variety of consequences of not doing so in parties/get-together or re-unions etc.
One thing which I have fascinated about is trekking, I personally liked my experiences on it, but I know my limitations as well. I have observed lot of people going for a trek nowadays, going for a ride etc. and in a batch of 10 if you ask , one or two might have been actually interested , and the rest would have got inspired and followed that crowd which decided to break from the crowd !
So is conformity bad after all ? I still have doubts on it. In pursuit of a new thing, is it right on one's side to completely evade what is already existing and re-invent again ?
Is it right to build new systems just because you don't like it or should it be because the
current one is no longer appropriate ?
With my little experience of travel, I can say that if one goes to a unknown land, its natural that we look for people who are from the same place as ourselves, we look for known food, we look forward to it always.
Its not that we are afraid or against their people/food habits, as long as you can enjoy what you enjoy , it is fine, and if you dont get what you want, we would go for what is available for one, and relish it.
And as we have been told birds of the same kind flock together, it is because they feel comfortable and safe doing so.Again the early bird gets the prey.
As long as there is a need/motive behind behind going out of the crowd it is fine, newer approaches should be required not just for the sake of being new, but actually if the older one is not capable / inappropriate now.
Bye til nex,
This is a recent trend , which I have observed from my friends and friends of friends. It is obviously from the social networking media that I have figured out this.
The trend is to go out of normal and do something else. Be it in job or passion.
My views on this are more than complicated in this.
This is probably one of those grey area topics, where nobody could take a solid decision on it.
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| Going away from the crowd |
Sometimes I feel my life is going as per a written algorithm or script , that day in day out all weekdays invariably have almost a same schedule, and weekends have a separate schedule, same schedule across weekends.
This probably is a reason for trying out something else to get out of the routine life.
There is a small line between doing things differently due to a need or just for the sake of doing things differently, or to put it better for the sake of being unique.
Is it worthy always to go against the crowd and do something else for the sake of uniqueness.
On a deeper note, we think that the reason for such an activity is not just inspired in seeing others doing it. There is something more than that here.
One reason which I can think is that with education comes the ability to think , and the ability to ask questions, and hence questioning the beliefs of the society.
The problem lines in identifying where to question and where to not, or rather where to go with the crowd or where not to.
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| Confused whether to follow or not |
The problem lies in questioning the parts of it, for instance which stream for graduation, which job to choose.
After finishing the board exams, most of students are given two options to choose, science or computer science , most of the time if the decision is taken by friends, a student decides on one after discussion with friends and most likely a minimum number of friends would have to choose the same stream. If the decision was taken by parents, they decide on their circle and follow the crowd again mostly. In the first case there is a chance that certain students may form the crowd, but in the second case the chances of it are pretty weak.
There are some things which one has to definitely follow the crowd and some which one has to differ. For instance gambling, there has to be one guy who takes in a risk,and makes the game interesting, if everybody gambles the same way, there is no gambling there !
So here one has to definitely break out of the crowd.
But the question whether to break out of the crowd or follow the crowd is not such a simple question, if it was , then there is no reason behind this post !
From my personal side, I have faced many of these things , one that I don't drink or smoke. It may be because my parents brought me up that way, it may be because I have seen people suffering who did that, it may be even because of variety of other reasons, which would definitely vary from person to person.
Among my friends circle, I have always been named as the guy who would not do it, who lives by rules, just because of this , that I don't smoke/drink. I took the decision to be away from it, and follow a different crowd than some of my friends. In this case again, its not a simple question, as there will be variety of consequences of not doing so in parties/get-together or re-unions etc.
One thing which I have fascinated about is trekking, I personally liked my experiences on it, but I know my limitations as well. I have observed lot of people going for a trek nowadays, going for a ride etc. and in a batch of 10 if you ask , one or two might have been actually interested , and the rest would have got inspired and followed that crowd which decided to break from the crowd !
So is conformity bad after all ? I still have doubts on it. In pursuit of a new thing, is it right on one's side to completely evade what is already existing and re-invent again ?
Is it right to build new systems just because you don't like it or should it be because the
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| Birds of a feather flock together |
With my little experience of travel, I can say that if one goes to a unknown land, its natural that we look for people who are from the same place as ourselves, we look for known food, we look forward to it always.
Its not that we are afraid or against their people/food habits, as long as you can enjoy what you enjoy , it is fine, and if you dont get what you want, we would go for what is available for one, and relish it.
And as we have been told birds of the same kind flock together, it is because they feel comfortable and safe doing so.Again the early bird gets the prey.
As long as there is a need/motive behind behind going out of the crowd it is fine, newer approaches should be required not just for the sake of being new, but actually if the older one is not capable / inappropriate now.
Bye til nex,
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