Followers and Leaders

Followers and Leaders:
I am not a follower, I am not religious, I have respect for people who are religious, but I can not attend gathering only because you told me it will be good for me, I can not take peoples word or be part of a crowd, everyone’s doing it means nothing more than a trend to make money from to me.
I am not a leader, whilst people tend to like the music I show them they still only catch onto bands that hit the radio’s high rotation list. According to comments in my high school year book people admire that I am my own person yet no one has followed this trend of not creating crowds and trends either.
So as neither a Follower nor a Leader I am simply a Loner, and a Looser, I listen to music you have never heard of, I wear daggy clothes that are comfortable, I play sports that I enjoy, and I can’t convince anyone to come with me to the blood bank or smile at lonely people on public transport. (You make friends and meet crazy people that way, and get snubbed a lot.)

But I have been a follower on occasion, like that time I joined a school band because my friends wanted to, I can be coaxed into doing things for others and with others, sometimes. (The band sucked no one could play anything so we had 5 vocalists.) I also followed the trend of watching ‘family guy’ because it was funny and after I tried it I liked it.

But I have been a leader too. It’s just that I needed other people to follow me, people that other people thought were cool. It was an accident to begin with, but you may have noticed how many people are wearing oddly colored shoelaces these days. Well I am sure I am only one of many people to start this trend but I did. My school shoes were wet so I went to school wearing black shoes because they were the closest colour to the brown school shoes I had at home, because the only colour laces I had that were dark enough to put on black were purple they had purple laces in them. I had worn them before and been told I was weird, but at this time I had a group of girls from school who were obsessed with me, almost stalker like (I don’t know if they were pretending to freak me out or if it was real but) they were like, “that is so cool” “that looks awesome” “how did you think of that” “you’re so cool” etcetera etcetera. And then this trend pops up, because I did what I normally do and I had followers think it was cool. So I learnt that if you want to be a leader it’s easy, all you have to do is be yourself and get some followers to start all your trends, and move them into something bigger beyond yourself.