[gekitsu]

today, i was thinking very excessivley about the world i live in.
at some point, i had the oppinion that every human being has the mental abilities to be an individual. so, why are most of the people following else's path? of course, it is more easily...
i thought on and considered these people stupid. for me, stupidness is awful. i don not like the presence of stupid people and do not like the mass of humans that is unbelievably stupid most time.
at that moment, i realized that it has to be something special to be an individual. on the one hand i felt quite good because i consider myself being *vers individualistic. and being something special is always nice
on the other hand, i felt so alone. the huge number of humans on this world reduced to just a few. most people who are individuals probably think about expressing themselves, so most of you here are individuals i suppose.
i felt remembered to nietzsche's idea. that there are people and some kind of super-people (dunno what the expression is in english for �bermenschen)
nietzsche said that people fear what is different, so they will most likely fear these people. some of them walk their path and lots of humans follow them.
why can people dedicate their life to anything else but their OWN mind?

i don't know if these thoughts describe rality in some way. i am on a very emotional trip at the moment. i am in love to a girl and i don't know if she feels the same. the whole day, i did not see her one time, what may be a reason for having a lot of negative thoughts because her look always makes me forget everything and get "high" in some way.

do some of you sometimes think similar things like this?

in the end of all, i was siting crying in my room, seeing that it is the hell when being here, being held here (by this girl) and not really wanting to be here.

nah... i think, these penguins have stolen most of my sanity...

[Poxin]

Is this what I wanted
To be stranger in the crowd
Faces with out people
This is all I'm alowed
Unattached and drifting
Just don't know whats comming
So I did succeed
Is this what I need

I know where to go
But I just don't know
Looking over my shoulder
I Left the others behind
Still echoes in my ear
Unattached and alone I fear
So I did succeed
Is this what I need

[edraket]

I know what you mean. I have had that feeling a lot in my life.
But at a certain point I realised that however individualistic I was 99 % of my thought processes are based on what other people have thought before me and that has somehow ended up in my head.
This is a rather scary thought.
I guess it's just that 1 percent that makes you an individual.

eddy

[pilgrim 54]

yeah gekitsu i understand what your saying. individualism is an overused term in america. and sadly it is generally tied to consumerism and occupations.
i thought i was an individual for the longest time. to me it meant following your own path which resulted in the separation of social/cultural ties. later i came to see just how much culture influenced my way of being which further fueled my desire to understand my own society and sociology in general.
individualism seems relative to social bodies. similar in nature to ethics. to claim individualism one has to consider commonalities and differences on a larger socially macrocosmic sense.
i don't think that individuals are special, just different and scarce. what i find interesting is that individuals(on the most part) happen to think about society very much.
loneliness does follow individualism, and i'd say rationally so. i do however like solitude.

[gekitsu]

yeah... it's scary in some way.
i often think abot individualism. i don't think it is what most people think it is. i do not think it is doind something that no one did before. i think it is doing what you think is right and okay for you, no matter if someone else said, did, wrote etc... it.

damn... i just read this post, i was really in bad mood that day.

[Trigger]

People live in packs (i think). They need a leader. Kind of.

Oh, i don't know, i'm no expert.

Wait, why am i even posting?