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aroraborealis) wrote2007-07-10 01:40 pm
aroraborealis) wrote2007-07-10 01:40 pm
Move along
In any social trend, there are phases and groups. There are the groundbreakers, the early adopters, the mainstream adopters, the sticks-in-the-mud. The average person probably spends most of his or her time in the middle groups, but probably also has areas of interest or disinterest that swing them into groundbreaking and sticking in the mud.
It's easy for me to see places where I'm a stick in the mud, but harder to see any where I'm a groundbreaker. Is this common? Do you see yourself as a groundbreaker about anything? If so, what? If almost-but-not-quite, what keeps you from it? What about stick-in-the-mud-ness? Is that easier or harder for you to see?
It's easy for me to see places where I'm a stick in the mud, but harder to see any where I'm a groundbreaker. Is this common? Do you see yourself as a groundbreaker about anything? If so, what? If almost-but-not-quite, what keeps you from it? What about stick-in-the-mud-ness? Is that easier or harder for you to see?
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I'm a joiner, if it suits me. If the thing that Everybody's Doing is something I would have done anyway, I'll probably jump on the bandwagon, if I hadn't already done it before it became "the in thing".
The Joiner Activities I do:
- Music, because I can't help it, and because everyone in both sides of my family is a musician...
- Motorcycling, because I've been staring at motorcycles since I was a toddler and I just can't get over how cool they are...
- Tech, because no matter what job I have, I always wind up fixing stuff in addition to my actual duties...
- EMS, because I can't stand not being prepared...
- Photography, because I want to own everything I see, but where would I keep it...
- Sailing, 'cause the ocean is so sexy and it could kill me, so what's not to like...
- Camping, because it's the cheapest way to tour on a motorcycle...
- Racing, because I can go around and around on a track and improve myself every. single. lap...
- Martial arts, because I need something to quiet the monkey mind plus in secret I really want to be a super hero, but that's just dumb...
- Bicycling, because I can't do martial arts for exercise all the time, and I'm too much of a klutz to rollerblade...
- Reading science fiction, 'cause no other written word holds my attention long enough...
- Non-standard relationship models, because the typical ones in my society don't matter to me, negatively or positively...
Yeah, that about covers it. I can't think of anything I do that I do because it's part of a social trend, or its location in that trend. I honestly don't think I'm a groundbreaker about *any* of it, and I'm probably a stick-in-the-mud about almost everything. I just live my life.
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