What is the reason we don't allow ourselves to be ourselves ? Why do we constantly want to be like everyone else ? Why would you like to be like someone else ? If you are a creative person (which we all are) you can see the difference between us quite obviously. If you are asked to paint a duck while in a group situation you see an interesting thing. You may start by marking out your duck with a pencil. Then you have this little inkling to look at the persons duck next to you to validate that you are drawing the right way. Why do we do this ? I'm not even going to bother explaining the rest of the processes because already we have discovered that yes, you don't want to be different or original. Lets say you put each person in a different room to draw their duck instead. Now we have no reference whatsoever as to what the others are doing. You draw, then paint your duck and all the people display their interpretation of the duck in one room. You walk around the tables and look at each duck and all the different interpretations of the same topic.
Each time you go to art class the teacher says to you "Ok, lets paint more ducks". You think to yourself "why are we doing ducks again ?" Now your teacher is an individual and keeps repeating the same task over and over at every lesson. Until one day, you and your whole class are basically painting the same duck. All of you have come to the space where you are now creating the same old duck. You and your classmates are like "what is going on?" You find this rather disturbing and so do your classmates. The fact that after just a few short classes and being able to see all the ducks, you are all doing the same duck and this spins you all out. Why does this happen you ask ? This happens because everyone in your class wants to be the same as the person next to you so as not to be different and stand out from the class as some sort of lunatic. Kids are the best at being themselves. They don't care what the person next to them is doing. They are able to paint ducks that are all different, even when sitting next to each other. Every one of them knows that a duck is a duck, and they will give their 100% honest interpretation of a duck as seen through their eyes. This begs the question.........
When did you stop being a kid ? And why do you now care what the other person in your art class is doing ?
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