Be Different! (Like Everyone Else)

"These are hard times for individuality. If you do any of the small eccentricities, then you've got to know that at least a zillion people do the same." (Be Different! Like Everyone Else) I disagree with Luc Sante. I think this is the best time to express our individuality. The little things that we do, like carry a special bag everywhere, always have a little shivering dog, wear the bracelets on one hand in particular, etc. everybody else may be doing. But it is the combination of familiar eccentrics that give us something entirley new and unique.
I used to always where my bracelets on my right hand, I would have a stack going up to the middle of my forearm. And though every other child in the second grade may have been into the same style, I used those bracelets to tell my left and rights apart, so to this day I can not wear anything on my left hand because it confuses me. No child in my class had this specific trait for bracelets. Nor do they get confused by accesories on their left hand because I learned differently then they did. But that doesn't mean I am the only one wiht different traits. A student in my preschool class would always sing out loud. Especially when the teacher gave us the activity of singing in our heads. It was just what she did and no one else would even think of doing.
There are also more ways to express our individualtity then the way we learn in the classroom. Our market today gives us a wide variety of clothing, jewlery, tatoos, hair styles, and so on. Many people shop at the same store, the more popular brands like Holister, American Eagle, Urban Outfitters, JC Penny, Vanity, and the list keeps going. But everyone can picka specific shirt or dress or pair of pants that they like above the rest. They choose clothing that matches a style that they set in their heads. Many people share the characteristics of certain styles, like a group poeople may not like ruffles. But then in that group are people who also don't like pink, and that sets them apart from the rest. Then in that group that doesn't like pink, maybe two people love writing on their shirts. One of those people love inspirational writing, the other like humor. This is what sets us apart in our clothing aspect, the little things we like vs the big things we don't. We end up coming out with our own style that no one else can copy.