_{Dear Clan,}

_{What's wrong with you all?}

_{You brought us up with that indoctrination to always choose for ourselves. Be independent, dare to be different, explore the world and keep on learning, stand up for what we believe in and always know who and what kind of a person we want to be ... stay in that purpose and just be, no matter what ...}

_{and just when we did just all that ...}

_{and when what we choose to become no longer meets your expectations, no longer satisfies your whims, no longer agrees to the standard that you have chosen to walk on and gets you to loose control over us ...}

_{you start calling us ... the family's black sheep.}

_{So clan, what's that all that sort of "badmouthing" about?}

_{We're black sheep because you can no longer make us dance on your palms?}

_{Is it cause we're awake to the fact that we do not have the need to possess that very same outlook in life you have?}

_{Is it cause you feel left out when we let you experience exactly how you made us feel about being independent?}

_{Is it cause you feel abandoned when we went exploring what the world has to offer us and got busy trying to better ourselves to get to live the life we've always dreamed of as you taught us to?}

_{Is it cause we broke away from the traditions and rituals you brought us up into?}

_{Is it because you can't accept the fact that we have chosen to be who we are now - different from you - unleashed from all the cultural obligations you tried chaining our ankles to?}

_{Is it because we no longer play that role of being your obedient marionettes and that finally ... you are now awake to that fact far from your illusions that you own us like you used to think you do?}

_{Well clan ... if its wrong to be a black sheep I don't ever want to be white nor right.}

I'm a black sheep and proud!

_{Yours truly,
Black Sheep}

Why is it that ... when one's standard, point of view or choice of path in life differs from a group, no matter who that person is, bloodline or not, we tend to disagree with and automatically deviate from ... as if their being who they are tends to question our norms and perspectives in life for being right or wrong ... when really, it's not about being right nor who's opinion is wrong. It's all just ~~ ...

- being different.

I wonder whether there'd be a time, when the world really, really - learns to live and let live, for each of us actually have the right .. to be ...

You, are you the family's black sheep or are you one of the whites? If any of your family member dares to be different from everything that defines your family, are they also tagged as a black sheep? Why?

Me? am coated mocha ... tagged a black sheep and proud!