Being Different
They talk about square pegs and round holes. They talk about oddballs and eccentrics. They ogle, patronize, and ostracize. That's them. What about us? " There must have been a moment at the beginning, where we could have said no. Somehow we missed it. Well, we'll know better next time ," said Guildenstern reincarnated. Next time, eh? There's the rub. But Guildenstern says what I mean. Somewhere in my developmental years I must have decided, I must have moved in this direction. Sometime I must have been young enough to say, "Life would be easier if I could just pretend to be like them." If I'm a square peg trying to fit board after board of round holes, who carved me? I'm inclined to take responsibility for my own character, which means that when someone told me to be creative, to make myself be what I wanted to be, they didn't tell me the whole story. Someone somewhere forgot to tell me that even if I make myself correctly, if I do it ...