And this feels cheap. Now it s not original, and the best you can do is to enjoy telling everyone that you rode a scooter before they sold them at every Brookstone and Sharper Image from Goshen, New York to Casper, Wyoming. So the risk has gone, and those who define themselves by their originality can no longer be original with this fad. They move on and discover our next trend, and maybe in the process wear something that all their friends laugh at, but they proceed, confident through the mockery, because, for one, everyone is riding scooters, and secondly, they know they have the strength to be true. It s because of the lack of originality.
Nothing is cool if everyone does it.
There is no uniqueness to it. You cannot define yourself by something if everyone else does the same thing. And that s just what a trend is. It is a way to define you superficially. There are those who define themselves in their adventurousness in trying new things, and there are those who later try to define themselves by affiliating with these people.