You have a very valid point. People are scared of expressing themselves in what they do out of fear of other people's opinions.
Yet they are quick to do as other people do because they yearn for recognition. And as you say, eventually they end up in a "prison" created by someone else, yet they have no one else to blame but themselves.
If only people can realize, people who are successful...the ones that stand out, are actually the ones who gave expression to their own uniqueness without the fear of other people's opinions. In some cases, as I have heard, they even were about the reactions and responses that might be coming their way, but they went ahead and did it anyway.
Thank you for sharing this information with us!
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