There wouldn't be outcasts if nobody was the same.
Rather, no outcasts if people weren't expected to be the same.
How can one be 'different' if not for the word 'same'?

Not everyone's born a speaker, or a talker.

Since young, we were taught "ways to be a better speaker", made to go through presentation after presentation -- all for the aim of preparing us for society. Because they'll only hire you when you know the 'correct' way to speak, how to package things nicely, or how smiling more would gain you greater acceptance.

Trainings to help express ourselves better and to connect with others is, of course, good. But somehow, it feels as though some of us are losing more and more of ourselves as we grow older.

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For the extroverts, it can be done really easily. But how about the 30% *rough figure* of the introverts on earth? Must they be forced to put on an approachable front just to fit in? Calling them "cold", "distant" and "anti-social" would eventually pressurize them to change into somebody they're not, for it is only natural to want to fit in.

These people are the ones whose personalities grow onto you after awhile, after they get used to you and break out of their shell. Or they might really have little to speak of. If humans were allowed to be themselves, there wouldn't be people desperately trying to find things to say even though they know it doesn't feel like themselves at all. There wouldn't be pain of the disapproval of oneself just because they're not like the majority.

The majority makes use of great numbers to impose a sense of superiority over the minority. All they have are numbers. Everyone's special the way they are, so they shouldn't worry about being different from the majority.

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If they didn't make us all go through the same processes, if they didn't make us fit into molds, wouldn't life be much more interesting? I think we'd be able to learn more from each other if we were allowed to reveal our true selves. Of course we have a choice to not care about fitting into society, but honestly, who would want that? Where did the idea of 'fitting in' come from?

The thing is, the word "different" wouldn't exist without the word "same", which is like "outcast" as opposed to "fitting in". If the world allowed everyone to be who they were born to be, if everyone wasn't expected to be the same, there wouldn't even be someone 'different'. Just unique beings.

Do we live to fit into society, or do we live to be ourselves?