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 does it mean you're 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