CONFORMITY: The Walking Scene from Dead Poets Society

The video from Just for Laughs above

Reminds me of the scene from Dead Poet's Society

Where the boys were told to walk around the courtyard

As they do, they eventually begin walking in unison

CONFORMITY

It is important to be our authentic selves

Always Questioning ALL Authority

Always Questioning the direction of the herd

And also most importantly 

BEing AWARE and MINDFUL

Question all the ways you conform

Some conformity is a good thing

It's safer to stop at a red light

But be vigilant

Perhaps we sometimes conform too much

Even if we are conforming to the nonconformists' role

Which is usually conforming to the opposite

Direction the conformists are moving

Which is still Conforming

We are still being led by others

If conforming to the desires of others

Is getting in the way of you being your authentic self

Look at those things and see 

Are you conforming because of true safety concerns

Or

Are you not being you because of fear of what others think

If that's the case - think that through for yourself

It is important for you to be the true you
Probably cause some friction

Could lose you some friends
But hey
True Friends stay with you no matter what
And being the true you

Gonna bring some new Friends knocking on your door

So

Be Aware - Be Mindful - Be YOU!

Here's the 2 minute clip from Dead Poet's Society

The Walking Scene

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/nJ_htuCMCqM

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La Seine à la Grande-Jatte by Georges Seurat

Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art

~*~

"You don't get harmony 

when everybody sings the same note."

~Doug Floyd

~*~

"We lie if we say we do not see color and culture and difference. We fool ourselves and cheat ourselves when we say that all of us are the same.  We should not want to be the same as others and we should not want others to be the same as us. Rather, we ought to glory and shine in all of our differences, flaunting them fabulously for all to see! It is never a conformity that we need! We need not to conform! What we need is to burst out into all these beautiful colors!"

~C. JoyBell C.

~*~

"Be neither a conformist nor a rebel, 

for they are really the same thing.

Find your own path, and stay on it."

~Paul Vixie

~*~

"But human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope."

~Howard Zinn

(You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train)

~*~

"We laugh at sheep because sheep just follow the one in front. We humans have out-sheeped the sheep, because at least the sheep need a sheep dog to keep them in line. Humans keep each other in line. And they do it by ridiculing or condemning anyone who commits the crime--and that’s what it’s become--of being different."

~David Icke

~*~

A lie 

believed by all as truth

Is still 

a lie

~AOM 

(but I'm sure others have said the same thing

Just in a different way)