Find the Others

By: Timothy Leary

Admit it. You aren’t like them.
You’re not even close. You may
occasionally dress yourself
up as one of them, watch the
same mindless television shows
as they do, maybe even eat the
same fast food sometimes.

But it seems that the more you try
to fit in, the more you feel like
an outsider, watching the
“normal people”
as they go about
their automatic
existences.

For every time you say club passwords
like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s
awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside
to say forbidden things like “Tell me
something that makes you cry” or
“What do you think deja vu is for?”.

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl
in the elevator. But what if that girl in
the elevator (and the balding man who walks
past your cubicle at work) are thinking
the same thing? Who knows what you might
learn from taking a chance on conversation
with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece
of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life
by mere coincidence.

Trust your instincts.
Do the unexpected.
Find the others…