世界に一つだけの花

A flower unlike any other in the world. This is a very popular song by SMAP. Topped the charts when it first came out, and is still very popular in Japan (even the music boxes have this tune). Tune is catchy, but what really touches me and, I suppose, the Japanese are the lyrics of the song. The song questions why human beings persist in trying so hard to compare with others and to be number one when flowers are each beautiful in its own without having to compete with one another. Are we not like the flowers each and everybody unique and unlike any other in the world?

For more details on the lyrics and it's translation you can click the following link:
http://dustyhawk.com/2005/10/30/sekai-ni-hitotsu-dake-no-hana-smap/

I wonder if the world (as in other human beings) would except me if I do not follow the mainstream. Can I truly be myself, and not be a perceived image...