Happy sunday dears friends of WEEKENDEXPERIENCES! ❤️
I've been a bit absent from the community due to so many personal commitments, but here I am again to participate in the weekend commitments. This time, both the phrase at the beginning of the post and the first option caught my attention, so here is my participation:
When has doing the unexpected, unconventional or simply different thing to other people worked in your advantage? Explain the situation and result.
STAPELIA GIGANTEA
Like the flower in the image, I consider myself different. I follow perhaps uncommon paths, but I try to be happy.
More than benefit, I would call it personal satisfaction, since doing things different from others is something that fills your spirit or soul and makes you feel calm and happy, according to Robert Frost's phrase, I think I have almost always chosen the loneliest path, I do not consider myself equal to the rest, for me it is boring, to follow the pattern that society has taken day by day, for example, I am not the type of woman who forgives infidelity or abuse, perhaps many criticize me because I have tried to have several relationships and they simply have not worked out, because they do not tolerate the lack of respect from the other person, unlike many other people, both men and women who endure many things in order to maintain the relationship, I prefer the company of my cats 🐈⬛ ☺️
Often, what stops us from doing something different is the financial aspect, but within my means, I like to perhaps wear something different at some point or make unique clothes for myself and my children and go out and show off our outfits proudly.
I also like doing activities that are different from others or at different times. Another example I can give is that, when it comes to vacations, I hate going to a place and finding it completely full of people doing the same thing. When it comes to traveling, I like to do it during the off-season, as they say, when everyone is studying and working, and I'm enjoying a trip to the beach, the countryside, or the mountains. I feel it's more satisfying to arrive somewhere and have it almost all to yourself, than to have to be surrounded by thousands of people.
On the economic side, I've also tried to do different things, but it's often quite difficult to succeed in these situations. I've wanted to start several types of businesses, but in my country, the situation is so difficult that if you go out to sell X thing, the next day there are thousands of people doing the same thing. It seems like they're waiting for someone to create something new so they can copy it and do it immediately.
I can also give you a great example of this: with sewing, I try to do several different things, but when I go out on the street to offer my products, there are many that are perhaps similar or that are at exaggeratedly low prices. And when I budget, it doesn't give me the basis to undertake that idea I've had. Today, there's too much competition for anything you want to undertake, and it's quite difficult to take a path that no one copies, and of course, you don't hurt anyone.
And so, in many areas of my life, I try to be different or unconventional, I have few friends, perhaps because people are afraid of what is different, but I simply do not like being the same as everyone else, I like to have my own ideas, follow my own paths and not bother anyone, many times I receive rejection from ordinary people, that does not matter to me, I am not looking for acceptance from anyone, I simply want to live my life, calm and happy with my loved ones and enjoy to the fullest every moment that comes my way!
The photos shared here are my own property taken with my iPhone 11 phone, for English translation use Google Translate