14 September, 2011

Following a Different Drum

Misfit" usually has a negative connotation. Do you call yourself a misfit (because you don't fit the norm), or someone who has heard their own internal drum, and followed the drumbeat of their own life? If you don't have a "normal" lifestyle (say, you're 40 or 50 and single for whatever reason (divorced, never married, or whatever), or have children, or don't have children, does that make you a misfit, or a person who has followed their own drummer?

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau