The Ultimate Misfits' Survival Guide to Life
Heather has a Bachelor's Degree in English from Moravian College and has been freelance writing for more than 12 years.
Movies thrived on characters who had a lone wolf mentality
Going against the grain in a machine controlled society
Everything was done by the book and no one could step out of line
Being a loner had the appeal for all rebels with only a certain cause
But it was better to find someone to rail against the windmills
Real and otherwise, of course
Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable played two lost souls
That came together in their haunting final film
Demonstrated that it was ideal to find someone who understood you
Life's ultimate private battle of deciding where you belong in the world
Better to stand out or fit in with the supposed in crowd
Hard to say which works better or worse for you
Depends on make of a person's character to belong or stand out
Fortune either favored the bold or blew up in their faces
Having an active imagination left room for creativity
And also allowed personal demons to flood landscape
Double edged weapon to a select few or many
Given the various websites and biographies out there
Time to focus on an individual struggling between normalcy and rebellion
Always deemed an outsider by the populous huddled football crowd
Not looking to blend into the societal fabric by any means
Like the rest of the smoothed out herd
Strung together by similar thoughts and ideas
Not looking to make a mark on the world
Unless the teacher called out their names directly in class
Don't want to reveal any level of intellect to the unwashed teens
Searching for an excuse to give you a bathroom swirly
Found out there was one likeminded spirit hidden amongst the throng
A rebel with the cause of not caring what others thought about him
Liked his self-made identity and all that came with it
Found another half who understood what it meant to stand out
Another member of the lunatic fringe hanging dangerously close to the edge
Two peas in a uniquely gilded rock and roll pod
Creating and plotting their next moves in life and on paper
Learning that fitting in wasn't necessarily a good thing to strive for
It was better to accept yourself flaws and all
Without living up to a next to impossible standard pressed upon you by critics
Shredded the rulebook for good in a wood chipper and live for only me.