" ' I am free I cling no more!
Liberation is mine!'......... The greatest clinging is to cling like this. " Nagarjuna
In your attempts to free yourselves from convention by being different you have trapped yourselves in the chains of your longing to be special and apart.You are a prisoner of yourself.
" A glimpse of freedom does not in itself free one from the craving to be something special and apart" Stephen Batchelor
Until you can move beyond the need to stand out you will never be free. Many of those you shun for their normalcy are more free and enlightened than you will ever be. The harder you push yourself to be different and apart the more you fail to be.
" Clinging is to insist on being someone
Not to cling is to be free to be no one. " Nagarjuna