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Be the sheep or don’t be

Jessica Cote
6 min readOct 23, 2017

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Trickling into our daily life is the person that we are in public and the person that we are in the private confines of our boxed in prisons. If the two personalities are diverse like the colors on a peacock’s feathers we begin to enter into a confliction with ourselves. Who are we really when we step out that door?What mask are we wearing?

Fitting in is like being a bird in the same flock and having to fly South every winter because the rest of the bird family does. Being like a bird is not uncommon for us. We need guidance. So we look at what other birds do and follow them without question. Fly South..no questions asked. By asking why you fly south every winter it opens an opportunity to be vulnerable. Vulnerable isn’t acceptable in society.

Society is a melding pot of problems. We are driven by materialism, perspectives, fear, comfortablity, and conformists. Creating the reason why the news desires to only focus on the destructive aspects of society like killings, politics, and natural events. Our news enters into the way people make decisions and it caters to the idea of group conformism.

“There are people who are generic. They make generic responses and they expect generic answers. They live inside a box and they think people who don’t fit into their box are weird. But I’ll tell you what, generic people are the weird people. They are like

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Jessica Cote
Jessica Cote

Written by Jessica Cote

I am just a girl among the many fish in the sea. A writer among the many dreamers, and a socialist among others.

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