He did not really care, but still nodded, still laughing, just to not get lost. The psychology of the crowd is invisible power, swept away like a wave, no matter if we want it or not.
He remembered a friend about the time she protested the whole group's opinion in the class meeting. "Although she knows her right," she said, "But when all eyes are poured out, I naturally doubt myself."
In the end, she was silent, leaving the crowd. Not because of changing ideas, but because keeping the opinion sometimes more tired than giving up. Why are we easily caught up in the majority? Is it because we are afraid of differences, afraid of being judged?
There was something he used to read online: A man shouted that the sun was purple. At first, everyone laughed. But then, some participants, and more people, in the end the crowd shouted.
Those who know the yellow sun are also silent, afraid of being considered eccentric. That story is like a mirror reflecting how we live: Want to know what people know, believe what people believe, so as not to be left behind.
Keeping your own opinion is not easy. It requires courage, determination, and loneliness. I have met a guy who always said what he thought, regardless of whether the crowd agreed or not.
When the group criticized a book, the boy calmly said: "I feel good. If you don't like it, don't tell me to hate it."
He admired, but he thought he was very lonely. Keeping the political opinion sometimes separates himself from the common flow, turning into a lost species.
The psychology of the crowd is not necessarily bad. It helps us to connect, help society operate. But if we always follow, we will lose ourselves. He did not dare to say that he always kept his stance, because he also had many weak and scared moments.
But he hoped, someday, before the great wave of the crowd, he was brave enough to say, "No, I think differently." Even once, to know that he was not just a faint figure in that endless crowd.
