Monday, January 25, 2010

Stereotypes

I've started to notice that I spend a good portion of my day just watching people. I sometimes have an out of body experience when I realize that I'm part of the herd. That's weird.
It seems like everyone can fit into some type of box. The hipster box, the nerd box, the non-box box. They're all there.
Right now, I'm in the Sooner box. Now that I have spent a considerable amount of time at the university I cannot erase it from my past (to my knowledge, at this time). When people ask about college, I will have to tell them (if I choose to tell the truth) that I went to OU. I will then be put into a box.
I'm about to graduate, and I'm trying to pick my next box. How do I want people to stereotype me for the rest of my life? Do I want to be in the seminary student box? The plasma-donating-homeless-man box? I can pick any type of box I want.
Ideally I would like to be in some sort of amorphous box. I think it would be great to keep people guessing as to which box I'm in. Not because I have a desire to be different or unique; I just want to mess with people's heads.