Does being an individual require having a green Mohawk and a pierced nose? I see so many kids walking around trying to act punk. Not because there escaping the conformists that plague society, but because they want to fit in. Then once the person is in the group they exclude others in order to feel better about themselves. "We wanted to confront the people or institutions that seemed unjust instead of establishing an institution from which we could exclude others (which, sadly, is what many punkers really want.) Greg Graffin shows that being an individual doesn't require being punk. Punk is the way that he came to be an individual, but that doesn't mean it's right for everyone. "We punkers bonded over are collective turmoil, not our individual needs or desires." Being an individual is to challenge institution and figure out what your views on life are, not what someone else tells you. An individual is some one who wants to experience life, from their own eyes, someone who doesn't care what other people think or say.
             When I first entered high school at the age of fourteen, I looked up to older kids. I didn't even know the kids, but I wanted to be like them, because they drank, smoked and hung out with hot girls. I thought that if I partied at a young age it would make me different from all the younger kids who didn't party. So here I was at the age of fourteen going to parties with older kids. Thinking that I was an individual because I partied. But did I feel good about myself, or was I just following the crowd, trying to fit in?
             After a couple of years of partying and hanging out with older kids that were popular because of the way the dress and the kind of car they drove. I found out I didn't like the person I was becoming. I ditched my old friends (my real friends) in order to go and ride around with the older guys, because I thought they were c
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