Conformity sickens me. It irritates me how people do things just cause everyone else is doing it. How people follow. How people try so hard to blend in. How people succumb to conformity out of the fear of being judged or being labeled as 'weird', 'strange', 'crazy', 'eccentric'. 

People who follow the way other people write and talk. How suddenly everyone goes crazy over the same damn bloody thing, even if they're not personally interested in it. How everyone wants to own the same thing just cause everyone else owns that thing. How people give in to peer pressure.

How people are so un-original.

It's so irritating. 

But you know what sickens me more? The fact that sometimes, I, myself, cannot help but succumb to conformity. 

Don't get me wrong though, I always, always make the effort not to succumb to conformity and peer pressure, but living in a society drenched in the mentalities and notions of a typically collectivistic Asian culture, it can be hard. 

I have a problem with conformity in a sense that I always care what people say about what I do, with what I am doing with my life and anything of the like.  

Being a true, full-throttle non-conformist takes shitloads of guts. 

If I had all the guts and courage in the world, I would want to be the odd sheep, but in a good way. I wouldn't want to blend in, I don't want to do what everyone else is doing, I wouldn't want to give a damn of what people think if I go against social norms (for good reasons), I wouldn't want to live the same predictable life everyone else is living, I would live an extraordinary life, I would take the road less traveled.