You ask yourself, are you just
imagining things or just overly assuming? But just like a photocopy machine,
you post a hobby's pic on your page and one FB friend comes up with something ‘sooo the same’, even the angle how it
was taken. Impressive yet far from unique. You just got your fringe and the
next Friday she has her new profile pic with her bangs newly trimmed, then the blue nails, then the next weekend date… etc… etc… Inspiration
is one thing, imitation is another.
Initially you think it was
coincidence; suddenly you like the same thing or in the same line of thinking (at
the same time). But when coincidences become too obvious and too often even
your vocabularies are reappearing (and
even your mother starts noticing it) you feel robbed and it begins to piss you
off.
While it is so tempting to just
copy, so painless to become an echo or so easy to live under the shadow, there
are dangers of becoming a copycat.
1) It’s
Facebook irritant, again, especially when it is too evident and too frequent but never convincing. So
imagine how many FB friends you annoy.
2) Content
scraping is plagiarism.
3) And doubly
offensive and insulting when you try to rephrase and the grammar gets crazy.
4) A counterfeit
LV bag is a counterfeit LV bag. It will show when it’s not original.
5) You will
not experience failing and falling flat - then getting up and doing better on next try or
if you failed over and over again, having something to laugh about yourself.
6) You miss
the thrill of discovering things yourself; the excitement of experimenting
because you just wait what she posts next, what she does next, what she wears
next.
7) You will
remain a shadow, you will never get a life. You will remain an echo, you will
never have a voice.
8) You will
miss being different, you will miss being the inspiration, you will miss being
real. Your only fan will be yourself.
9) You’ll
get used to copying, it will retard your brain.
10) You
will lose friends and don’t get new ones, real ones.
