I've always been a rather open-minded person. I figure, you do your thing, I'll do mine, and if they don't mesh, so be it. I was so happy to get to college where other people like that existed. I immediately became friends with people who are into art and music and politics (none of which I've been traditionally involved with). They preached about personal freedom, acceptance, and pluralism, all things I strive for. Then you live with them. I don't listen to the same kind of music, so I'm ridiculed. I don't like the same, melodramatic movies, so I'm told I'm shallow. I don't really understand art in terms of paint on canvas. My artistic expression of choice is classical music and dance. This apparently means I'm not intelligent...
I'm sorry, but I think the fact that I can pull a deep life lesson out of silly movies rather than overdone drama means I'm more introspective, not less. The fact that I can analyze the emotion of an orchestra or body movements but not skinny boys wailing does not mean I'm not intuitive, it just means I have a different sense of things.
Ironic that people who say they are "fighting against the man" and hate "posers" are really the biggest posers of them all. They are just as worried about image, but the image they are going for is "original" which leads them all to be the same, intolerant, close-minded people. What a disappointment.
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