Being different is difficult. It’s unnatural. You don’t want to be different. Nobody wants you to be different. It’s so much easier if you are like everyone else. It’s so much easier on you. So much easier for others to relate, accept, understand you. It’s painful learning how to accept being different.
But once you step outside the bubble, you can almost never be the same. You see things different. You respond to things differently. Things have different meaning, purpose, significance.
That bubble though, it’s such a safe, comfortable, protective feeling. Nobody wants to leave that feeling of security, people do whatever they can to not leave that bubble. I don’t think anyone leaves that bubble on purpose. You get kicked out for being different, for not conforming, not assimilating, getting rejected. Bubble bursted.
The difficult lesson of accepting how to be different, is a lesson in having grace, compassion and understanding for yourself. Then strength in your vulnerability. Then conviction in your differences. Then faith and confidence in your differences and the differences in other people.