What is Real?

We all have moments in life where we're stuck in a rut. We're tired of doing the same things everyday--eating the same cereal for breakfast, listening to the same 10 songs on shuffle, going to the same classes, etc. So what do we do? We try to shake things up--throw life a curve ball perhaps.

Are you picking up what I'm putting down?

Maybe try this:

Have you ever slept in on a Saturday, just because you can? Or maybe you're really sleeping in because you want Saturday to feel different from your getting-up-at-the-crack-of-dawn weekdays...

Or have you ever tried studying in a different place in the library? You tell yourself that you're just exploring new places but in reality you want something completely different from where you studied yesterday?

Or have you ever worn something, that totally isn't your style? That's what I did today. I wore a hat to school today--not a baseball cap or even a trendy new yorker hat. It's simply a plum colored crocheted hat. I've never worn a hat like this before, but I feel so different. I feel like a completely new person. It's kinda fun because I feel original and unique because this is totally out of my norm wardrobe. But then I just have to look around at all the other girls on campus and realize that I'm not the only one sporting a crocheted hat today...

Is style ever a completely unique thing? Most people feel that when they wear something different or dress in a contrasting style from their friends that they are going against the grain by doing their own thing. Didn't they get that idea from someone else? So how can any style be completely new and unique?

When you tell yourself that skinny jeans are cute, they become a real fashion item to you and therefore you pretty much fall in love with your favorite pair. But when the guy that sits in the back corner of your math class sports a mustache, you immediately register in your mind that all guys with mustaches are creepers (anyone else feel this way?)

We teach ourselves through the way of society interacts, what is real and what isn't real. We learn by what other wear/tell us to wear what is fashionable and what isn't.

We listen to different music or study in different places to make ourselves feel different, but we're really just doing something that someone else has already done before.

So how do we get out of that darn rut?