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It is a great speech really. And very true.
I remember growing up as a kid wanting to think I was something special and that I was different. I was a member of the black trenchcoat mafia, died my hair black, and wanted to be a punk rocker without subscribing to anarchy. My father died when I was a baby and I was always searching for something, which I have not yet found.
I see this in my kid who is now 11. All of her friends are trying to distinguish themselves by their clothes, and by what seems to be a new trend called "dye dipping" where they dye a group of strands pink or purple or red (which ended up in a disaster the other day for us).
I tried to explain to kid that people get tattoos and piercings trying to make themselves different, when in the end the very best you can hope for a stable income, a roof over your head, and a family that loves you - And if your really lucky a hobby you enjoy. No matter how different you are, that's as good as it gets.
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