Fashion is among the last influences under which a human being who respects himself, or who comprehends the great end of life, would desire to be placed.
— William Ellery Channing
STILLNESS
— William Ellery Channing
STILLNESS
Letting the current taste decide things for you is a strange arrangement when you look at it directly. It hands questions about how you live to a process nobody is running, which changes for reasons unconnected to you and will disown you the moment it moves on. Following it is not harmless either, since it trains you to check what others are doing before you check what you think. Self-respect and that habit do not sit comfortably together.
Pick something you do mainly because it is current and ask whether you would still choose it if nobody could see. Keep what survives the question and let the rest go.
What do you follow simply because the people around you do?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.