Moonkin,

I think it's important to be an individual....to define your own likes & dislikes. To define your own thoughts without having them being forced on you by someone else.

Sure, it's easier to let someone else do your thinking for you. Tell you what you should like or dislike, what you should look like or not look like, how to wear your hair, or what make of car you should drive, what food you should eat? I found that to be truely happy, I have to be the one that likes what is around me in MY life Why do I have to like what someone else tells me to like or do what someone else tells me to do. Then, my life is theirs not MINE. I found that no one has the exact same tastes as I do. If we have to like what everyone else likes, then why are there so many choices in the world? Being an individual is the most important thing in life, knowing ourselves is what gives us the strength to hold onto our own beliefs & make our own decisions. It gives us the strength to stand up against those who try to force us into things we don't want or believe in.

It's important to not have a label other than being "yourself". They can make fun of you for that, but you are the one who can honestly say why you like or dislike something or why you do or don't do something.....all they can say is "because everyone else in the (label) does".

I love my world made up of things I truely love around me....things that make me happy, calm, & relaxed, rather than trying to force myself into being something I'm not or having things around me that I don't really like.

It's important to know yourself & be yourself....you will be happy in the long run,
Debbie