Random: Think about it

How can you know you are alive if you act according to the norm?
How can you know you are free if you think within the predictable rule?

July 2008 seems like another month for most people. To most people, it is another month. For me, it's a month that I have to say goodbye to two close friends. They are not dead, merely move on to something else. These two never met each other, yet they shared several traits and similar past: traveled to a foreign land, hardship, strong opinion, has specialized skill, conversational, etc. But much important trait is their honest opinion of me. They won't hold back to that I am wrong, and that is invaluable.

Now, it so happened that they gave the same opinion about me. That I will be alone from talking in my own manner, and acting according to my own norm. Are they right? So far, yes. People don't take too kindly of "abnormal" behaviors, and their first instinct is to avoid. In the end, I can only hope that being myself will lead me to meet other honest, open-minded individuals like these two.

I wish to write more, but it will do no good for anyone. Anyways, I will leave it as such for now.