A short guide to defying the norm

1. Try and be different in your looks, not like all the different people mind you but truly different in how you dress or wear your hair
2. Try and act different. Not necessarily act out, just different, when people say hi, say hi in another language, like russian. When people ask you a question give them a very specific detailed answer with many examples
3. Try and think different. This is the hardest thing to do, because thinking is often a practice and not something that is conscience. To think different you have to step outside who you are and try and relate to differing things. Most often though this can only be achieved by living it. That's why many people learn by example, or why many children learn the hard way...

I think learning the hard way is the only way to learn experience teaches you a valuable lesson that mere words could never. How do you know if you'd be good in a street fight or survive one if you don't get into one. How do you know that socialism is bad unless you've lived in a socialist country, (i have and it's not pretty). How do you know what it's like to have power when you've been defenseless and weak your whole life.

Really,... Experience I've found has turned girls into women, boys into men, and people into gods. In fact I think that living a hard life is sometimes the only way to achieve greatness. You never hear about the people who had a rich family and got richer, usually they become bums, scums, and rummys. The truly powerful came from nothing and rose to greatness. These people know what it's like to be powerless and that is why they hold onto their power with an iron fist, they are feared by all who enter their presence, and are respected by those that despise them. They fear nothing except becoming poor once again, which sometimes becomes their downfall. Life is full on irony like that.

It's because, life does not imitate art and art does not imitate life. They are one. Just different sides of the looking glass.