You wouldn't know me if your eyes were closed

[misprez1600]

Some days I feel like I have no idea who I am, and other days I'm absolutely certain and wish the people around me could truly know me. I'm guilty of avoiding myself on many different levels. I allow myself to be overcome with a million different things so that I don't have to focus on me. My new year's resolution is to discover myself (no, pervert

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[callalily04]

Mom and I were watching Dateline or one of those shows the other night. They were talking about how human beings conform in groups and things. They did a set-up to study people. They got together people to say whether two shapes were the same or different (to be fair, it wasn't comparing squares and circles, they were more intricate shapes). Anyway, the first round everyone filled out a paper with their answers and turned them in individually. The second round, they went through one at a time and answered out loud whether they believed the two shapes shown were the same or different. Everyone else was in on it except for the very last person to answer out loud. Most of those people answered the same as the group, even if the group was wrong. These were people who scored 90% or 100% on the written part, and only scored like 10% correct on the verbal answer session! Only like two of the people they tested actually said what they felt was right even when it wasn't what the group was saying. Mom and I both said that that would