Unconventional is Conventional

An excerpt from a diary entry I wrote some days back -
Things are being done normally. Some people change things. Others take their example, and change things too. So then THAT becomes the way things are done. The ‘norm’ is to change the norms.
Where the hell is an original idea?
Is there even such a thing?

A wikipedia quote -
Thinking Outside the Box Paradox

The idea of thinking outside the box is that unconventional problem solving could be used to solve problems where conventional thinking could fail. The encouragement of thinking outside the box, however, has possibly become so popular that thinking inside the box is starting to become more unconventional. This kind of "going against the grain means going with the grain" mentality causes a paradox in that there may be no such thing as conventionality when unconventionality becomes convention.


A similar article appeared in InsIghT, IIT Bombay's newsletter, about how people are losing originality in everything.

Now, what could be more ironical than a thought on lack of originality, itself loses its originality. I have no idea who thought about this first. I read the wiki page and the article after my diary scribblings. When I had written about it, it was out of frustration, and later I had thought it was a good entry, something original. Imagine how let down I was when my thoughts on originality being lost lost their own originality.