Hmmm been quite a while since I last posted something...I think I may even have forgotten how to write. Anyways today I just feel about writing about the oh too common topic- originality. Now I know growing up in this day and age, with the ever expanding social media prompting every one to become celebrities, that it can be quite tiring to be seeing people basically force this idea of what we 'should be like' onto their listening audience.
Television, magazines, the internet...everywhere one can find this constant pressure embedded by both the subliminal and outright messages that we should fit the mold. People should wake up and smell the coffee because little by little it is being etched in our minds the blueprint that will make us all robots and slaves to this ever aflame bout of commercialism. Now I'd rather not go into the whole politics/propaganda/capitalism theories that would all cement my points in this post but you all can definitely go read it up. As in the words of Tyler Durden (one of favourite actors: Brad Pitt) from the epic movie Fight Club,'
We're consumers. We are by-products of a lifestyle obsession. Murder, crime, poverty, these things don't concern me. What concerns me are celebrity magazines, television with 500 channels, some guy's name on my underwear. Rogaine, Viagra, Olestra.'.
Lifestyle obsession, Tyler claims is our pitfall from diversity and originality....from the calms of a free spirited mind, not wavered by the harps of uniformity.
So to recap things, I have stated that capitalism and commercialism, aided by the propaganda perpetuated by the mass media, we are a generation slowly or arguably quickly seeking to fit in to the status quo. This is nothing new, of course. Since Man has been around, there has always been a constant desire to belong to the pack, to be accepted and to be loved.
However, our present lives are vastly different...different aims..different agendas....
All that we can do is try to be as true to ourselves as possible and not sell out ourselves to conform to other's views. Conformity is another key element we should all try to stay away from. Merely accepting what is in front of us, is not enough. In fact, this complacency is what hinders evolution. Ask questions, Do not be afraid to ask questions. You would be most surprised at the knowledge you would acquire if you were to.
I, myself am a victim of this. Of course I want to fit in, of course I want to be accepted and to be loved. These are basic needs of a human. Yet sometimes I wonder, in the course of all this, whether I am losing the essence of ME.
Young adults these days have it especially hard. This phase in our lives is that time where we are soul searching and there are many influences that can steer us in so many parts. I know it is easy to talk about this and easy to be judgmental whilst its entirely different to actually growing up where you feel as though you don't belong for whatever reason. I can never pretend to understand as every one's situation is different.
All that I can do is to implore especially the youths to stand for something different..be real..be YOU.
By simply being you, you are a world apart from every one else.
They all want to fit into the mold. You are made of different clay.
All the best,
Charlie XD