DIFFERENT-BUT-SAME (Un-Seeing Exercise)
Lately I’ve been stumbling over books and assorted other offerings by shiny people and various sorts of life-advisors parsing out all the advantages (plus some of the disadvantages) of “being different.” If you do this, they say, you will stand out. You will be an “interesting” being. You will be a Winner-with-a-capital-W. Maybe you’ll even get to be rich and famous. And isn’t that a cool thing? The problem, as these life-advisors will also tell us, is that “being different”…
