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| Fannie Lou Hamer |
We live in a world that demands conformity. We are rewarded for being average, for
fitting in and simply going along to get along.
To be average is to be mediocre; it is to be in that big hump in the
bell curve. I don’t think it was in the
creator’s intent for us to be average when we were created.
We are each a designer original. We were designed differently to live do that
unique thing we were created to do. Over
time we are taught to stop being us and be like everyone else. When you choose to standout teachers will
say, “You aren’t like the rest of the children.” Our reply should be, “We weren’t designed to
be like the rest of the children and I am not going to allow you to put me in
that box. I am going to be the unique
and different. I am going to be the me the
creator created me to be.”
As we get older it doesn’t stop. We go to jobs on the daily that demand we fit
and do what is expected of us. If we do
what is expected we will never do the unexpected, the unusual, or the
extraordinary. If we always follow the rules we will never change the rules of
the game. I refuse to fit in! I refuse to do what you want me to do but
rather I will do what I was created to do the way I was created to do it.
Don’t expect people to understand you or what you do. You have to understand you and what you
do. You have to make sense to you. When you dare to be different people will
look at you funny, they will talk about you, they will not understand you and
in many cases they will not respect you.
Their disrespect comes from their disdain for you because you have
chosen not to play the game they are average at playing on the daily.
Today I say to you dare to be different. Dare to express yourself? Dare to do that thing that others said you
couldn’t do or shouldn’t do! Do that
thing that when you tell people you are doing they look at you like you are
crazy. What is it about you that makes
you standout? What is it about you that
you need to amplify that says “I’m different and my difference makes a
difference and makes this world a better place; more just, more loving, more
kind and more creative? What is different in you that society has talked out of you?
DARE TO BE DIFFERENT AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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