Normal makes you sick
Television, movies, music and magazines all applaud conventional behaviour. Even the ‘radical’ behaviour that they pretend to encourage, demands that the observer still conforms to the rules of ‘outrageous’.
It is not easy to be a non-conformist because you make most people feel very uncomfortable.
As soon as you suggest an idea that is abstract or odd, you are branded as weird, not in a nice way but in a way that would have you outcast from society. People do not like behaviour or ideas that are not sanctioned by the majority. Even rebels – bikies, street people, street gangs etc. all conform to the rules of their breakaway group.
A non-conformist, or true rebel does not need group approval or direction. He/she stands alone. True artists are non-conformists, that’s why they are classed as odd. This is an advantage for an artist, it makes life easy. But… if you are a non-conformist in any other field, it is not quite so easy, then you are classed as weird and it can be very uncomfortable.
It’s not easy being odd but how else are you going to express your uniqueness?
