i just read the best chapter of my life

i am presently reading "searching for God knows what" by donald miller and his chapter 'adam, eve and the alien: how the fall makes you feel?' and i am speechless. i put the book down and immediately went to blog on it.
i also read an amazing blog entry here both of these things deal with the same topic. why do we as humans do what we can to fit in? it's disgusting to me! and yet, i still try.

a child learns early there is a fashionable and an unfashionable in the world an ugly and a pretty, a valued and an unvalued. where this system comes from, God only knows, but it is rarely questioned, and thought completely illogical and agreed upon by everyone as evil, it remains in play, commanding our emotions as a possession. it isn't something taught to us by our parents; it is somethng that comes naturally, as though a radioactive kind of tragedy happened, screwing up our souls. (searching for God knows what)

we all have lived through it too. the first day of high school, you are immediately put into your social class and usually have no hope of transcending those boundaries. i was one of the fortunate few who were lucky enough climb the ladder as the years progressed. but for what? my friends in the "upper" level were worse than the friends who i left behind and i ended my time in high school wondering who the heck i was wanting to impress?