What a drug dealer and I have in common: We are Libras.

I had an interesting conversation today in the lobby of our library. About zodiac signs. Yes. We weren't talking politics, game theory or jurisdictions. We were talking zodiac signs.

I was introduced to this first year and she claimed she knew everything there was to know about zodiac signs and then asked if I'd like to know about mine. I declined. I know me, and I highly doubted she would add any insight that would surpass my knowledge of well..myself. A few minutes of rambling later and she came back to the subject. She said: 'you like socializing to a point where it can sometimes be misconstrued as flirtatiousness, you are indecisive, but once you are set, you are extremely stubborn, you are easily frustrated by non communication and inaction, it's very easy to attract your attention, but easier still to lose it.'

Then she said, 'you are a Libra'.

Uh. Ok.

I literally stood there for a minute processing. She didn't even know my name, let alone when I was born or my zodiac sign or anything about my socializing habits for that matter. So I said, presupposing that all that junk you just said is true, how did you figure it out? She goes, well for starters, the fact that you are worried that I 'found out' is the first sign. Librans socialize and people think they know them, but when you filter what they say, you'll discover you know very little about them.

So I said, again junk aside, scientifically speaking, isn't it irrational to expect that everyone born within the span of 30 days to be carbon copies of each other? What about environmental factors and social development? You are saying that a drug dealing Libra and I are comparable. So she says, yes you are. You use flirtatiousness to attract attention, the drug dealer may use it to sell drugs.

Right.

So why aren't there millions upon millions of me?

Because apparently, factors such as society, culture, religion only dictate your motives, but not the methods with which you choose to achieve them. So I choose not to deal drugs for a living, but I use the same tactics a Libran drug dealer would use, but for my own purposes.

Interesting.

It got me thinking though, how do you separate all these factors from one another. It's not an open buffet, you can't pick and choose. Because if it's my culture, or religion or society which is keeping me from drug dealing, then maybe I should be defined by those instead. Maybe instead of saying 'I'm a Libra', I'll say 'I'm a Muslim'.

So I asked, why are you so concerned with Zodiac signs if you know that they aren't decisive in determining an individual's personality?

She said: 'I'm not interested in why you are different, I'm in interested in why you are all the same'.

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