You either live anxious to become a combination of people that already exist, or you spend your life getting to know who you are and giving yourself the freedom to be that person.
-Me
We are born to be nonconformists. No two human beings are exactly alike, therefore, we are all born to be unique. Most of life's distress, most of it's struggle, comes from dealing with reproach for not wanting to conform....Yet we do it anyway. Monkey see, Monkey do. I don't believe we have any genetic link to monkeys other than we share the same Creator, but for all intents of purposes, we are monkeys. We see, we do. We deny ourselves, and follow. I wonder how I would be right now, what state of mind and spirit I would be in, if I had never seen a TV, magazine, advertisement of any kind, or listened to radio or popular music. Some might say that I'ld be "missing out on life" super ignorant to the ways of the world, but I say I'ld be simply untouched by the weapons of mental oppression. I'ld be more "me", more uniquely creative, and more in-touch with my self than any human in modern society can boast.
Society is pollution, a network that is deliberately clogging the channels of love, peace, communication, culture, individualism, harmony, balance, true satisfaction, self-respect & outward respect, all for financial, political, or other evil motives. There was a time where salt was worth its weight in gold, and like it, humans' lives too have lost their value. We are fashion models, We are robots, We are a generation of prisoners destined to a lifetime of having our minds trapped between two headphones and our bodies weighed down by gadgets that carry the weight of the world within them. I commend whomever called it the "world wide web" because in it are caught the souls of many beings. That's it. Stuck. Stuck in "how it is, so roll with it" and "Rock on".
No choice but to conform, or so they subliminally advertise. They say "Be Yourself" and then sell you a magazine with "10 Great Ways To Be Yourself (See page 31)" plastered on the cover. They say "Rock your own style" and then fill your world with ads on clothes and accessories you should buy that are guaranteed to "Set you apart" from the rest, and then sell it to you for twenty times more than what it cost them to make (several times more than what you should spend on article of clothing anyway, which is such a vain principle to begin with). They make sure you hear what they want you to, and their robots hypnotizingly flash it in your face all day long. We like based on what we feel like we should like. Their agenda was making it a weird, embarrassing, even shameful thing to be truly different. Truly different, as opposed to Hollywood "different" (I hope that the point that there IS a difference has at least been made).
Nonconformity should be our goal, not as an indie trend, but as a duty to ourselves. Established individuality even within society and amongst its robots, our Victory. Don't conform. Be the you that you actually are, not the one that you feel like you should be. Trust in God, He made that "real You". Resistance. Resilience. Confidence. We can. We must.
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