Nothing
new and
exciting can exist without some deviation from the
norm. To
change, one needs to
innovate, and to
innovate, one can't just follow the
beaten path, but needs to find a deviation in the
route, a
turning none other has yet taken, and follow that new
path to wherever it may
lead.
Thus, one needs deviation to discover what is truly "out there", to find some meaning in this crude, imperfect world that still evades the reach of oh so many. Of course, not many can take the same path, follow the same trail, or it too will become too normal for anything new to be found along it.
We each need our own deviations, and it is those deviations that make us different, each an individual. Indeed, one could say that that is the very definition of what it is to be human.