It Doesn't Really Matter

As humans, it's common to constantly ask ourselves: Who am I?
Are you yourself? Or are you who others think you should be? This means that either you follow the main stream; therefore, people are ultimately questioning the strength of your character.
Most people consider pop culture to set a trend and expect people to follow it. But for simplicity's sake, I'm going to separate it into two big groups.
Of course one is what most people think it is. A powerful arrangement in which hierarchy is set by social interaction which of course has a certain impact on who you become. In order to stay in a certain spot you have to "stick to the status quo" as sang in the major motion picture, High School Musical. (By the way, Disney is a major promoter of this side of pop culture.)
The other big part is when pop culture tells us to "be yourself." But in order to prove that you are in fact doing things for yourself and not for others, you stop yourself from doing what the others do. Ironically, this one gets more promoted than the other by this creating the significant difference between the two: advertising. As a matter of fact, just today I heard a lot of advertizing but only a couple stuck in my head. An Absolut Vodka campaign and Oscar Wilde’s maxim: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

Anyway, what I’m getting at is that by trying not to be part of the crowd, you become part of another crowd that doesn’t want to be part of the crowd. There is no way to prove that you are you for yourself because you could easily be what we think is a bubblegum/cookie cutter person as much as you could also have an 100% out-of-the-box personality.