Mark Twain once said that "We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove."

My challenge to everyone reading this: be different.  Assert your views and stand by them without compromising your happiness or that of others.

The same man, Mark Twain, also affirmed that "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."  Now there's some good advice.