What is your view on 'conforming'??
Does it mean that in order to be friends with a certain group, you have to have certain things, act certain ways, even dress certain brands/shops/trends?
Honestly, as much as I hate to admit and how I try to unadmit even--to be in denial, to not think that way, to think NOT--its sorta kinda, duh-yes-it-is actually true for most parts and most people. How difficult people make life is huh? Just becoz some think they're better/prettier/richer/more popular/clickier than others. Unfortunately, 'others' tend to follow suit, coping with such tags. How sad.
In actual fact, we don't need to conform. That's the use of having a Will. Free Will. People should accept and understand each other, just the way they are. No ONE or TWO or THREE needs to follow the ways of the group to be part of a group. Maybe, some will argue, that is what conformity, community, unitedness is all about. TO CONFORM to a common set of values. Believe me, I STUDIED this.
But you know, maybe conform shouldn't be the word. Try UNDERSTANDING. ACCEPTANCE OF DIVERSITY IN ITS OWN BEAUTY.
Conformity maybe just the source of the killings we have today. All this multiethnic/multireligion clashings. People don't understand each other, they say things about each other they don't even know about. Just because certain people don't do/act/think the way 'most' people do in certain places do. What do they do? KILL! KILL! KILL!
We see it at schools today, at college walkways, even in corporate environments. Groupies, Popular VS Geeks, Smarter/More handsome. More money than some stand out/are more successful than those who can't afford. Same thing! Haih...
Maybe all this is just coming from a sense of annoyance of how spoiled kids are nowadays, and these spoiled brats who have a sense of superiority over minorities/non-conforms think they can have everything their own way. They have nooo feeling of value on money whatsoever. Spending daddy's green, red, grenish blue papers like the time the spend with their groupies socializing. They trample over others including non-conform friends, family, even strangers. I feel bad, talking about them this way, because when I meet them, they are as friendly, sweet, confident and outgoing as you get. They kiss your cheeks at introduction, or shake your hands firmly to show they mean business.
Try observing every once in a while. They have a certain air about them, "SMUGNESS".
They do things with their friends and act like they're alright. With no shame, no remorse.
I love these people, just as much as I love the rest of the world in all its colorful happiness, changes, differences, pains, sufferings. I learn from them, tell myself and try too hard not to be like them.
But sometimes, just because I'm annoyed, I mentally strangle them, shake their eyeballs out, and scream in their face how they act like everything revolves around them. WORSHIP ME MY ASS!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
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