I think that most of us feel, at some point, that we don’t fit in with a group of people that we’d like to hang out with. Sometimes to the point that it makes us feel like we’re missing out.

Often we’ll try to copy some of their behavior in hopes that we’ll be a good fit. We’ll adopt new traits and act a bit differently in an attempt to join them.

The problem with this is that we’re ‘forcing’ behaviors on ourselves. There’s a good chance that we’ll start acting in ways that deep inside we’re not fond of. In a way we’re tricking ourselves. So we might fit in, but we won’t really like ourselves.

It’s better to focus on ourselves and develop our personalities. It’s important that we do things we like, because WE like them. It doesn’t matter what our neighbor does, it doesn’t matter what our celebrity crush does, it matters what we want to do. If we focus on doing things we like, sooner or later we’ll find people that also like those things and we’ll have groups to fit in.

We’re social animals, it’s perfectly fine wanting to fit in with people.

Anyway, those were some of my thoughts on fitting in, what about yours?

The comic for this thought is here!

-Marcos

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