On this campus I continuously cross paths with faces that look like vacant works of art. Their eyes appear to be covered by feebleness as they linger fervently around waiting for societal approval. Whether it is in their hair, clothes, shoes, car and let’s not forget body stature, they stand there and wait for the feeling of acceptance.
Sometimes that feeling never comes for that person and so they wrestle with their inner demons until they fall into a trance. I’m sure that several lost within this trance see their silhouette standing coolly over the edge of a cliff, as they observe their own corpse jumping off and plummeting into a pool of their self-doubt.
Somehow the vital rudiments of life have been misplaced within the transformation of society. Instead of people allowing their uniqueness to rise they let the “unanimous paparazzi” also known as the “senseless society” steal their inner essence and soberly comply with the egotist movement, which the world so forcefully marches in.
Everyday adolescent minds are being tainted by unsympathetic innate hardships which society brings. Naively these juveniles are plunged into being victims of the frailty implanted in those around them.
Foolish girls who are just looking for a “friend” let grown men screw them over so they can get a new outfit. Eventually they become mothers to little boys and girls whose fathers are invisible. Now they are stuck raising a kid alone, and the cycle begins all over again.
Young boys aspire to become their role models which are gangsters, because their daddies are absentees who have not been there since before their birth. Eventually, they learn how to rhyme and spit a couple of verses, so that they can hopefully become gangsters with a different name, “rappers” and make a lot of money so they can buy, “bling-bling”
Collectively, rather than growing up to be doctors, lawyers, teachers, writers, etc. the little girls and boys become expensive materialists without a cause who live in poor neighborhoods. They fuss and fight over gaining useless substances rather than gaining intellectual substance for their minds.
As the need for acceptance continues nonstop, soulless persons fall into the order.
They assemble without a sound standing in their stupidity, which makes them unaware of the soon to be demise of their individuality. Eventually they become portions of an enigma that fits perfectly into the pigeonhole created by this present humanity.
It’s as if the common thing for people to do is become utterly lost in stupor, join hands, sing songs of freedom in a cage which they have the key to. People have freedom of speech but they give it up in exchange for trivial supplies of merchandise which have no value.
People need to stop looking for the latest fashion trend, or the “cool” person on the block to follow. Instead of following the crowd they should look deep within and discover who they are, because self-awareness is the first step to self-acceptance
People are so quick to shout they are unique yet remain stagnant and reluctant when it comes to displaying their uniqueness.
As for myself, I will forever remain (unless I, myself, decide to change), the highly opinionated, blonde nappy-headed dreaded, caramel skinned, young woman rockin’ the Steve & Barry’s (Mall of Cortana) fit with a brown jacket and tie… And I dare anyone to try to make me conform!
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My failure to conform!
January 30, 2007
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