it's in our nature

Iain Thomas (author of pleasefindthis.blogspot.com) said in his TED Johannesburg speech that part of the reason why his blog strikes a chord with so many people is because his posts are ambiguous. they're not aimed at anyone or about anything in particular. they're just raw emotion that everyone feels, no matter what the cause. he said that sometimes, we have a hard time grasping the idea that we're not alone. that we're not unique. (i'm pretty sure he was the one who said all this. if not..oops.)

on facebook, there are groups and fanpages that you join because you read it and go "omg, i totally do that, too. i thought i was the only one." meanwhile, there are like 100,000 fans.

no one is original. no matter how much you try to pass off as someone you should "gett to knowww". we all have the same feelings, emotions, wants, needs, desires, vices. we're all humans.

and we hate it:

"Everything you like, I will find some reason to dislike and if we find we like the same thing, I will insist that you like it less than me or for the wrong reasons, like you don’t really understand the things you like. Because that makes me feel better about who I am. What I am." (pleasefindthis.blogspot.com)

just take twilight for example. before dear john, it was the biggest fad. you were the shit when you had the t-shirts, the game, the DVD, the poster, the life-sized cut out...and then the book. you had to know everything and anything about it.

another example, the jonas brothers. you thought you were just so renegade when you openly bashed them. or how about just music in general. you're at your finest when you're listening to the most obscure music, and once it goes on the radio and becomes popular, it's all "I knew it before it was popular!"

i do it, you do it, we all do it.

but really, in the end, who gives a shit? i'd rather embrace the masses then try to one-up them. i have my likes and dislikes, but really, i'm not going to parade around and state that i am original. i'm juliana, and, sometimes, people are just like me.