Sunday, April 20, 2008

Living in the structured society

Somentimes I get really shocked of how many things we are capable of doing in our lifes, just to please other people. A famous argentinian singer says in a song that the things we do in a compulsory way, end up taking out the happiness from our hearts. And the truth is that we can end up sometimes doing things that we really hate to do.
From styding to getting married, there are decisions that we can take just to prevent somebody else from worrying or getting upset with us. It semes hard to understand how hypocritic we could be. And worst than being synical with the rest of people around us, what is really wrong, is being synical with ourselves. We can left aside our own feelings and betray our thoughts and ideas just to fix in the society, in the family or in our group of friends.
The necessity of belonging to a group, of being part of something and of feel supported, can push us to be somebody who we really are not. It seems like if we are silenced by the fear of being pointed just because we think differently or do not share certain common thoughts. We are always supposed to think in a way, behave in some other and solve things out as normal people would do. The problem is that what is normal to you can be anormal to the rest. In just one second if your ideas do not match with what everyboby thinks as normal, you can become a phenomenon among the people around you. And, with any doubt, your ideas and behaviour will be judge then.
Our decisions are always conditionated by cultural and social patterns of behaviour. And most peolpe seem to agree with this as an important elememt so as to enable our co-living. And I generally used to do as well. I used to think that this is right. But recently, I have started to have a feeling of rejection towards this so much structured socienty in which I live in.

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