Original

An original man is not weird for sport. He is simply unwilling to be a copy. He would rather be a flawed first edition than a flawless forgery of someone else.

The world has enough copies. They chase the trend, arrive late, and wonder why they are always one step behind — because a copy, by definition, follows. The original studies what came before, takes what is true, and then has the nerve to build the thing only he can build. This is not arrogance. It is stewardship. You were made once, unrepeatably, and to spend that life imitating another man is a quiet kind of waste.