Avoid the crowd
If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone. Those who lift trophies of success are those who do what they do without stretching their necks to see “who else is doing what?” Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route. Do what is uncommon; do it in the uncommon way. I don’t mean you should reject people in your life. Rather, I entreat you to respect your own unique values and add value to your sense of existence.
Don’t depend on someone else’s plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them!
Avoid whatever everyone is doing and follow your passion. You cannot be found easily when you mix-up with the crowd.
The side of the majority is the riskiest place to throw dirt on your uniqueness.
Mark Twain taught that; “whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” I learnt that popular opinion is not necessarily the right opinion.
The fact that everyone is doing something does not mean that’s right. You can’t colour your world with someone’s paint. Use your own paint; colour your world. People easily get lost when they join the crowd to find pleasure than when they go solo and breakdown on the way. Don’t follow the crowd; you may be missing among them. Go solo. Go wherever the narrow way passes. If possible, go wherever there seems to be no way and create a way.
_______ Israelmore Ayivor
(Inspirational Writer, Blogger and Speaker)
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