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When everyone is specialNo one is unique
In race for identity
We submit to the masses
In strive for attention
Our innocence is thrown away
Our skin is bleached
Our essences evaporate
We fade away
We melt into scorched earth
Nobody is real
When only masks remain
When everyone is special
We're kings of empty worlds
In castles made of mirrors
Where no one hears our words
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By default everyone is special. Everyone is unique. No one thinks like you. No one looks exactly like you. No one has your exact DNA. No one can be YOU. You are special simply because you exist.
I've thought of how everyone strives to create ORIGINAL work. But by default their work is ORIGINAL, since no one created that work the way you did it. Even if you follow a trend - as most people do these days - your work is still original, just for adding your own so called flare or imagination.
As for individuality, I agree that we are making a trend out of it. In a way, that very individuality that people strive for will become as bland and empty as the trend they tried to escape from. Individuality has become the very ideL it was meant ro negate. Individuality has now become trend, unoriginal, and completely empty.
Now comes a question: How do you succeed as an artist after all that's been said? How can you make your work shine more than the rabble? How can you make your work look interesting when it has lost the appeal of originality and difference? Will people even care for your work? Will they just toss it alongside the other original works?
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Thanks for you comment, and I totally agree with your points. I would only add that we cannot mistake originality for being more important or more interesting than others (as I commented on someone else's post here earlier).
I think the way art should be made is with honesty. Do what you want. Not because it should be interesting for others, but because you want it to be in a certain way. Only then you can be true to yourself, to your own originality. Some people will like it, some will hate it - such is the way of things. Of course this becomes harder when you do art for living. It's easy to follow a path of what's popular in order to earn money. Just do market research and act accordingly. But it's harder to strive to better yourself every day to deliver something new and interesting. I think that in the end, if you care about whether people care for your work too much, you are on an ego trip or you are purely doing it for money, you are not doing art from within yourself. Then it stops being art and becomes a product. If that's what some want to do, then fine, but they shouldn't be surprised when people simply start liking another product instead.Β
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I agree to what you say as well.
As artist, you gotta be true to yourself. Create art not just cause of money and profit, but also because you enjoy it. When you create art out of principle of enjoyment and passion, then is when your art reflects a level originality and individuality that is virtually untouched by the the trends and by pop culture.
Your art becomes pure from the heart. You no longer look as though you're just seeking to follow a trend or a forcing down on people a work you think is original. It's own appeal and chram will drive people to it all on its own.
People will then attribute this as originality and creativity, when really all you did was follow your heart. All you did was put down paint to canvas or pencil to paper as you allowed your mind to create art, completely unimpeded by outside influences and personal drives.
I guess this is what I think. Create art for the fun or with heart and people will surely flock to it. ItΒ will most definitely stand out as original all on its own.
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Yep, that's right. But even when not as many people like it as you expected, it doesn't matter right? Because if you create art this way, you didn't really do it for them.
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Great poem, by the way!
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I really like this poem. It really shows the reality of the world it's really tough to think how we're just little pins among millions of other pins. Although, I think that it's good that we're taught to think we're unique and special it builds ambition to follow dreams and not just give up when trying to shoot for them. In the end, I think even our minor accomplishments will be enough to keep us happy which is what it comes down to with people.
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Thank you. And yes, ambition is good, when mixed with healthy self-respect. But I think what we should equally teach to have respect for other people. And most importantly to have humility. Exactly because, as you say, we'r just little pins. People seem to be forgetting about that often.
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the incredibles came out years ago and yet this theme of if everyone's special then no one is is still being talked about.Β
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this one is so unique, very adorable poem!
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thank you very much.
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i find myself trying to establish an identity through accomplishments and mistakes so i can know myself better, or determine my role which i think is actually a healthy thing for society to teach, as an artist i am unable to accept the idea that my role is insignificant, if i believed that i would probably quit making art. honestly i think we should take ourselves seriously more often than not. but then again shows like family guy are often too cynical for me and hearing "everyone is special" is sort of something i agree with.. although it is really important to try and see the bigger picture and know what you can and cannot control.
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I also think that everyone IS special - I mean we are all individual, unique beings. However, being unique is often mistaken for being important. That's why I wrote this poem. When everyone thinks that they are special, when we promote individualism, we get a society when no one cares about what others have to say, we get a society of arrogant egoists (the last 4 lines of the poem). Everyone things it is THEM who everyone else should look up to, because they are so special.Β
Secondly, while some people try to find their real self through mental self-discovery, it is not common. People are too satisfied to be told what to think and how to feel - even about themselves. At least that's a feeling I generally get from people. They want to feel special, because everyone does, but they do nothing to actually create an individuality - they simply follow the mass culture. That mass culture, at the moment, happens to be about individualism (the 1st 4 lines of the poem)Β
Lastly, I'm sorry but your role IS insignificant. So is mine or everyone else's. In 200 years, no one will know you existed. Unless, of course, you profoundly change something about the society or nature, or whatever. So why try? Why do anything? Well you can try and find your own reasons, but in my opinion, to believe that somehow our actions have a meaning is simply self-deception. But insignificance is not a bad thing. It means that you are free.
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because people will be there in 200 years. they matter to me. are actions now are important to their future. your writing about exactly whats been on my mind as of late, i felt really compelled to respond to it.
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Sure, you are going to leave a signature, e.g. a child, your art, a tree you plant. But there is a very small probability that those things are going to be of any real importance. Or do you disagree?
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i think being different from eachother is important. i think life is worthwhile, and if i could i would want those people 200 years from now to have some sort of hope.. and strength in the challenges they face. not feel like they were given up on.
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Yeah sure, I can agree with all that - but still you are not persuading me that anything a single person does is of any significance.Β
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and i wont be convinced i am unimportant. sorry if i bothered you...
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not at all, always happy to discuss stuff with people on DA
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The trick is to somehow let you sense that individuality is something they want you to "have", so you will lose all further interest in it.
But shh!
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hmm interesting 
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I bet there is.
In YOUR mind, too!
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thanks for the warning.. i guess
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