Follower or Leader

The quest to stay young and trendy hinders true progress. If you think if innovators and trendsetters, they are those who dared to step out of the pack and make a bold statement. They are the outcasts, the nerds, the socially awkward individuals who think differently from everyone else. Perhaps because of this, they have more to gain by embracing their individuality. We all claim to be 'unique.' And in many aspects we are. Our genetic makeup makes it so. No one set of DNA is the the same as another. Yet as a society we strive for complacency, a comfortable set of rules that are easily followed. When innovation is struck somewhere, the so called 'early adopters' are drawn to it like moths to a flame. But our pursuit to 'keep up with the times' forces us to be come followers; hiding behind what's been labeled as 'hip' and 'trendy' in order to hide the fact that we are incapable to coming up with anything more original.