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Proverb: Birds of a feather flock together
Most people feel comfortable being around others who are like them.
It’s nature’s way of balancing things out.
As today’s proverb teaches us, birds of a feather flock together.
Some may misconstrue this proverb and use it to support racism, but that’s not what it means.
This means that people want to hang out with others who share their opinions, ideas, and tastes.
Look at your friends, and you’ll see a bunch of people who all have similar things in common.
They may all look different, have different styles or drive various kinds of cars, but underneath, they all have something in common.
That’s the way life goes.
We talk about how opposites attract, but that only applies to matters of the heart.
When it comes down to the other things in life, birds of a feather flock together.
It’s a law of nature.
Young people make a lot of effort to be unique and stand out from the crowd.
They fail miserably every time.
For them, looking unique means dressing, acting and liking precisely the same things as everyone else in their clique.
We always want to be around others who are like us, who are into the same things as us, who understand us.
You rarely see a Beethoven fanatic at an AC/DC concert; I’ll tell you that.
Birds of a feather flock together, and that’s the way it’ll be forever.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 77.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.