Differing (Daily Soul Search 195)

[chickenfeet]

via oursin

How "different" are you?

From what? I share 99.9% of my genetic code with the rest of humanity.

I am certainly different from most of the people I have worked with or with whom I interact socially. I often hear remarks like "Only you would come out with that in this context". Wherein lies the difference? I think it has something to do with a very lateral analytical process and a wide knowledge base coupled to a certain social naivete (as in I am always surprised that other find my insights loony ideas surprising.)

Do you go out of your way to make a statement about who you are and how that differs from most other people?

Apart from a couple of trivial things like wearing bowties, no. The rest just happens.

Is it important to you to stand out from the crowd?

There are probably more times that I wished I blended in more but I guess I don't care enough about it to actually do anything.

Comments

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

Bowtie wearing seemed to be fashionable amongst young medical students in NZ when I was last there.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

They are sufficiently rare here to get the "Gosh can you really tie on of those" reaction fairly frequently.

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

An old boyfriend of mine used to read books about different ways of tying ties of all kinds. Mind you, he also used to buy shirts with collars you had to buy separately for buttoning on. That kind of attention to detail boggles me.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Interesting! Here in Canada most boys seem to grow up now not knowing how to tie a tie of any kind. Separate stiff collars would seem a bit extreme nowadays. I remember my father still wore them in the '60s but the only time I ever have is for costume type parties (as in icon).

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

Huh! Even I know how to tie and ordinary tie, they forced me to wear one at school.

That ex-boyfriend of mine was rather clothes conscious in a historical kind of way.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Ah but only private schools have uniforms here so no need for most kids to learn how to tie a tie. It was quite amusing when our rugby coach(*) insisted on the first XV wearing collars and ties on match days as half of them didn't know how to tie one.

(*)Kiwi of course

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

Mine was just a state school, but it was a grammar so they had pretensions. Bastards.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I do own one complete set of shirt studs though. Modern sets usually just have the five shirt front studs plus cuff links but I have one antique set that has collar studs as well. They were surprisingly cheap too. I paid $50 for the set which appears to have been produced by Garrards in the 20's or'30's.

Hmmm... antique studs...

[badasstronaut.livejournal.com]

...a strange dilemma.

[helianthas.livejournal.com]

I think you need to wear your chickenfeet when you go food shopping.