We spend so much time in our lives trying to join groups that are in the majority. We join political parties in order to win more votes in order to gain power over other humans. We root for sports teams and aspire to sit in stadiums with crowds holding more of our fans than the other guy. We adjust our behaviors in order to live our lives the way others want us to live, be they parents, or siblings, or lovers, or spouses, or colleagues, or other groups with which we identify. What if we followed our own light, without any conscious or subconscious need for the approval of others? What if we were our genuine selves, without regard to the opinion of anyone else? We might find that we are much less likely to join the ranks of the insane.
