Everyday Canvas

Walking Alone

Prompt: Agree or Disagree--
"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has been before." —Albert Einstein


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Agreed!

Nothing is wrong in following the crowd, but I believe life is an opportunity. Following the crowd usually has no creativity in it and it is not as safe as one might believe. Also, it depends on what kind of a crowd you are following. I mean, you could be following the MAFIA, right?

Doing one’s own thing, call it walking alone if you will, is seeing what could be and asking why can I not do this? Especially for women, the sky is the limit, if only we could make our own eyes sharp enough to see that sky.

Walking alone is an indication of one’s love for life, and it takes imagination and courage. For some women, in the past and in those societies that oppress females, these qualities have been and are discouraged. Walking alone is overcoming this kind of a conditioning, and not looking over one’s shoulder at what others are doing, but moving forward, doing new things, and experimenting with life without self-doubt, regardless of success or failure.

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Dear BC friends, I miss you, but I can't write every day when something else like NaNo is going on. This evening, however, I wanted to give that craze a short rest. I so miss blogging especially when I can't find the time or the mind for it.