Individuality

I was thinking recently, about how no-ones really different. I mean, we all scream for individuality to end up just the same as the person next to us. I say I'm individual, just like everybody else. But I'm not truly different...Why?

Why do people conform? We always want to say the right thing, wear the right jeans, straighten our hair to perfect the right style...who's the judge of what the 'right and wrong' thing to do is?

You have to have the nicest jeans, or wear the cutest purse, or say the newest thing until it catches on and everyone else is saying it as well. You have to be skinny, have frizz-free hair, white teeth. You cant wear that because 'its so yesterday'. You have to go to all the 'cool' parties, be friends with the cool people, pose like this, smile like that, lean your head this way, stick out your bum like that, just because that's the way it is.

And all I can say is, well, to hell with that. Yeah, I'm a teenager, and I'm always going to have a part of me that will care about what other people think, but I AM different, and I'm happy with that. I'm not going to be a carbon copy of someone people have deemed popular just to fit in. This is me. Take it or leave it.