Tonight I went with Matt to an Old Crow Medicine Show concert, and I have to say, those guys put on a better show than Cheap Trick, Blue October and Sevendust combined. They got some real soul and fire in their music. Tons of fun to watch. But, as you know, when I am in these masses of humanity I always get thoughtful about myself and who I want to be. I look around at all of these people and think about them; the way they look, the way they act, the way they smell...and I wonder about how I appear to others. As you may or may not know, it is Stache-tober, and I have appropriately been growing a mustache. But as I looked around at all the people tonight, I realized that I have no desire to be aberrant in my appearance. And it occurred to me that, in todays society, a mustache is a gross (pun intended) deviation from the norm. A scruffy chin, or even a goatee is more acceptable. And with this realization came the knowledge that I don't want to be someone who has to look different for people to validate my existence with their attentions. Or maybe I'm looking to deeply into facial hair...maybe I just realized I don't like mustaches. Either way I am shaving it off. And I'm okay with that. Just like I'm okay with being bland looking, odd smelling, wonderful me.
oh thank heavens you're not gonna do the stache. I hate those things! Not that you should conform to a norm, perse, but if YOU don't like it, and others don't like it, then why have it?
ReplyDeleteDeep insight though, that I like. In our search for self and meaning, sometimes it seems the only way to be real is to be different. That's not really true though, I think. the only way to be real is to be really you. Props
Oh I'm so glad the 'stache is going. Makes you look like such a creeper. And I'm proud of you for coming to that conclusion. In the end, people who must "be different" are just as easy to manipulate as the one's who must conform. The trick is simply to be, whether that includes "conforming" sometimes and "rebeling" at other times.
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