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Guthmund, you truly have a gift for expressing thoughts through written language.
I totally agree with you that many people 'run so hard from the idea of being just like everybody else, they've failed to see that they are just like everybody else' but I feel it should not be a blanket statement to all people that modify their belongings.
We did not have to draw stick figures on cave walls, or carve elaborate designs on our spears. WE've been modifying belongings for a long time. Modification to an object to makes it unique and special, to make it something that needed your own personal touch, to spend time and effort adding to your belonging instead of merely purchasing it and leaving it alone... i'm searching for words here. It makes that object no longer something just any person could go out and get, provided he had some cash in his pocket. It makes it uniquely tied to you. You did this. You made it nicer/stronger/cooler/faster/pretty. And this is something nobody else can do just like you can.
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