Many people believe that fitting in is a big part of life, but some do not. The question I’m going to ask you the reader is do you believe that you can only live if you fit in with a group? No matter the answer you’re correct, there are many benefits of fitting in but also many in standing out from the crowd. Since my page is mostly band and marching band themed I’ll give some examples in that regard. While playing with everyone else you want your sound to blend together with everyone else’s, you don’t stop to think about who you’re blending with, you just do it. In another regard, when you play dissonance notes you want to clash together. In a personal stance on fitting in, in the band you can almost get along with everyone. If you can’t either you have distanced yourself from people who are being friendly or simply they are not being friendly. Last year (Spartacus), and the previous year (Africa), there was this one person, for confidentiality purposes I will change his name. Let us call him Erik. Erik was rude, he wouldn’t compromise with anyone who he believed had less superiority than him. When I was marching as a freshman (Africa) our last move was a straight line facing the side of the street, we were told to guide the direction we could see, but Erik told us that that didn’t matter and we should always guide center. So, we listened to him for a while until we got yelled at for messing up so often. He didn’t seem to fit in anywhere. Most people when they join they believe that these people are so different from them and that they will never be friends with the people they want to be friends with. Our band is extremely friendly but you get those occasional people who just hate everyone. I personally don’t fit in much with many of the band members who are older than me, but I’ve never really been good with people. These are a couple of the people who put up with me, sometimes.
Some of these people have been with me for years, some I just met this previous summer. These are the people that I would trust with my life, well maybe not. In other words, in our band, we don’t worry much about not fitting in. In other social situations, most people feel they don’t fit in with anyone they see. My advice would be you only get one shot, one of those people you see could be one of your best friends for life and you wouldn’t know it until you meet them. You are a strong person who can do anything, stand up to any social situations that may scare you. You got this!
This is my favourite piece that you may enjoy as well: Mediterranean Rhythms
Tune It Or Die 