When you are a child, people tell you to be different. People will tell you that the thing you hate about yourself "make you unique" or "make you who you are" and they say it like its such an amazing thing to be different. This is probably the most inaccurate piece of information I ever heard as a child. When you grow up, being unique is not what is good. Being unique is bad. Being different gets you bullied and makes people be mean to you. Being unique doesn't let you fit in with the popular girls so instead you are stuck sitting at the table of outcasts at lunch. Outcasts=unique people. You don't want to be bullied, so you don't want to be different. Being the same gets you friends and popularity points and NOT bullied. If you are the same as the mean girls and all their friends, you get to be part of their group instead of getting bullied by their group.
Things as irrelevant as your shoes can get you hated on. If all the popular kids at school have Birkenstocks and you have super cool shoes from Africa, no one is going to care that your shoes are from Africa. All anyone will see is that you aren't wearing the cool shoes so you must be loser. People are cruel but inequality over something as stupid as shoes is stupid.
If every popular girl at the school i blonde and the new girl is brunette, she won't fit in with them so they won't like her so she will become an outcast just like that. Poof, your hair ruined the next 4 years of your life.
Being unique is a curse, don't curse yourself.
Believe it or not, all individuals are unique in their own way. It is up to the individual to either hide their individuality/ uniqueness or conform. Do not conform, Kat. You would be really bored.
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