I hate to see fake eccentrics getting attention for it and being seen as genuinely unique.
i.e, lady gaga.
I'm so crazy about her. She needs to do the disappearing act, IMO. For good.
Sorry, I just get obsessed with trivial things like this. Is it just me? :tongue:
It's not just you. Do you ever see people in public who do things like dye their hair pink and wear a whole bunch of chains and other attention grabbing items just to draw focus to themselves? Thats a good sign of a fake eccentric. (just based of appearance) When it comes to personality, other fake eccentrics TRY to come off as being alternative, different, and unique from mainstream culture(take hippies, new agers, etc for example). Whats ironic is being different and alternative is cliche so these wannabe eccentric people end up looking like regular schmoes. You get it? They just adopt a persona that some other group of people who call themselves different adopt, and now they're "alternative" and "eccentric".
There is a difference between personality and individuality. Personality is a PERSONA. Individuality is something that cannot be duplicated because we all have different life experiences and process things in totally different ways. That being said, people may be
similar but not exactly the same. For example, we all have individual faces and features but someone may say we look similar to someone else they know or have seen.
When a person finds the innate qualities which makes them an INDIVIDUAL and isn't afraid to bring those qualities to the forefront, that is a REAL eccentric. And they only come off as "eccentric" because we may have never come across someone as true to themselves in the way that
that particular person is.