Thursday, January 22, 2009

word vomit, just step over.

WRITER'S RANT:
So, you can't stay innocent forever.

Now it's just a question of when you want to taint your actions. Imagine if there was no external pressure of each society to adapt to. Everyone would be so distinct. There would be no universal teen culture that believe the rites of passage go from getting drunk to getting laid. There's this conflict between the old and new.

Whether or not we conform is a subjective matter. If you really feel the need, no one can stop you, and it's not as though you are going to be ridiculed for what you do these days. It is all about the exploration of the self and the context in which we try to live in. Seemingly, society at large tells us to go party and live, apart from just existing. So one would presume that one would be in more trouble and subjected to more ridicule for the things you don't do.

Perhaps by over thinking about this, we're just merely reevaluating things we've already known to be true and constant. Reminding ourselves that our beliefs are special, that the select few who don't buy into this capitalist way of thinking (where everything is a commodity) are immune to whatever is "new" and "revolutionary". Would this be another case of 'us against the world'? The key issue here is dealing with how society as a whole see it. It is a question of majority vs. minority. It is the matter of sussing out the difference between normality and acceptance.

At the moment, I tend to contradict my own self. Everyday, I question the validity of my principles. And I'm not doing this for anyone's sake.
I need to do this for me - I know I govern myself.

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