Whatever you do, don't get in to a rut.
Following the lines of least resistance is a tendency which everybody has to
fight against. It is so easy to let things slide, to go on as we have been
going. Our mental grooves of laziness in thought and action wear deeper and
deeper.
One reason why we tend to travel in ruts is
that we like going along with the crowd and be popular with it. We dress alike,
we eat alike, we behave alike. The average person has no shield against
ridicule. We do almost everything by the same pattern just because we are afraid of being conspicuous. Many a man
and a woman has original ideas, but they are timid about expressing them. They
know they run the risk of being commented on, if not actually jeered at. Only a few have sufficient strength of character
to be themselves and let the world go hang , and it is those few who become the
leaders of thought, and push civilization along.
-Louis
E. Bisch
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