Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!pacbell!ames!eos!aurora!agate!web6e.berkeley.edu!laba-4an From: laba-4an@web6e.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Why Try? I don't know why... Summary: "Real" individualism Keywords: yo baby yo baby yo Message-ID: <7555@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 9 Mar 88 17:40:25 GMT References: <7987@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: laba-4an@web6e.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 >The way I do things is, if I want to do it, I do. Sometimes >it happens to off-beat, sometimes it happens to be quite mainstream. I >don't do something just for the sake of being different, nor I do I AVOID >doing something *because* alot of others do it, too. >Karen A. Post Columbus, Ohio | So, if she floats like a duck...then she >karen@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu | must be...a WITCH!!! BURN HER!!!!! (Python) To my mind, this is "true" individuality. It doesn't mean avoiding the mainstream (so many "individuals" in my High School avoided the "usual" like the plague to keep up their rep), it merely means doing what you want to. -- "Am I supposed to put something here?"