a borderline-marginal person that I am

Quite a few expressed on different occasions that I am adrift, and I am marginal in my values and the lifestyle I pursue, or, in the case of being adrift, the lack of pursuit I make.

Most expressed their thought somewhat dismayed, with a slight hint of disapproval.

Why are these negative traits for most?
Because I want to savour and relish the richness life has to offer?
Because I am not convinced what are valued by most will make me a content individual?

A friend tells me in his country moderation is best, a virtue that should be pursued. But for whose sake is this?

It is interesting that while I am in a country where I am in many ways the opposite from most I feel the least marginal. I lose the point of reference because my own tangent never meet with others', that comparing who I am with others is utterly pointless. Whereas in the US, where people will accept my attitude, they accept me as Alternative.

Even being marginal is so easily dismissed as just being alternative. Oxymoron...

Things are relative, you may say. However I believe truth, beauty and goodness are a matter of conscience, and conscience is absolute. If you see me as collective differences from others and from yourself you may think I am indeed different, and you may think I am unique. But if to you I am but these collective differences, maybe you lack the palette I deserve to be savoured and tasted with.