I like to think that I am not one of those girls - the ones who strive to be indie or hipster or quirky or weirdbutinatotallycoolway.  We'd watch these girls in movies or TV shows or read about them in books, and there are some who get inspired to follow in the same vein.  Which puzzles me, because the reason why these role models are liked so much is because of their off-beat characteristics.  If others emulate them, then it's not so off-beat anymore.

See what I am getting at.  It's kinda self-defeating.

It's difficult to be original these days - I blame the sheer size of the world's population and the fact that we have more and more sophisticated storage devices to keep records.  And there's also the fact that we are wired to conform.  In order to belong in a social group, we'd have to get along and the ones who get along best are those who are alike.  (I think I am making sense here).

I hate to think that I am a sheep, nobody likes to be that.  There is a struggle - we are have to maintain our self-perception/image/esteem and at the same time, conform.  I feel that we're not all sheep or oddballs and we're capable in dealing with this internal conflict.  There are some instances that we're original (at least in the social groups we are part of) and there are other instances that we're like everybody else.  And it's good that in this age and place, we have (some) liberty to be more original than otherwise allowed.