Bandwagon

Definition: When one chooses to follow the recent trends to fit in with certain crowds.

Infected: The eternal blackberry versus Iphone dilemma. Majority of teenagers have them, at exceptionally monthly rates and expensive to get in the first place, even more so when they break as all phones especially those handled by youth are bound to do. One gets it to fit in, to be 'cool'. You don't really want one, your doing it to be accepted and in the meantime losing money that could have gone to something needed.

Cure: The book 'The Help' gives a look in the American South during the years after the civil war, when African Americans were still treated as second class citizens. The heroine bands with the coloured help against what she perceives as wrong behaviour from her peers, which for a time does result in her being a social leper but eventually she wins out and earns a strong sense of justice, accomplishment and love and respect from the people she helped.

Future Outbreaks: Stick with what makes you happy. Not what makes your neighbor, friend, boss or partner happy. We are given independent minds for a reason, they should be utilized.