Conform: (of a person) behave according to socially acceptable conventions or standards.
Is there something wrong with conforming? Or does the word look funny? I feel like sometimes its simpler to just "go with the flow". Of course when the flow becomes a poverty stricken, idiotic, brainless bunch of sheep(Like in Thoreau's world), then maybe then I'll decide "finding myself" will become a priority. But for now it feels more like a safety net. Something I can fall back onto if I don't know what to do. For those that can't or don't know how to find themselves it's easier to go with society than against it. Yes, I do feel like society has a ton of ridiculously prejudiced rules that seem to drown anything and everything like a raging storm. However, sometimes I feel a lazy current that can ridden to the next rapids of my life. Maybe I'm just afraid. I follow the "rules" so I don't have to deal with all the pain that's forced on society's outcasts. Maybe I'm just lazy. I don't want to constantly be looking for myself and figuring out what's me and what others want me to be.
I don't think it would be a good thing if I lost myself. When I do feel like I have to remind myself that "this is water", I know I have to find myself and pull myself from the sea of everything. I'm sure if enough nice, good people were to jump into this River of Society(Right now kinda polluted) it would be a good thing to conform. As it stands now, I very much feel like the "partly-cloudy conformist" who likes to be one with a society and just follow people around like sheep and live blissfully and ignorantly, only remember enough of myself to truly continue living. Of course the partly-cloudy part comes from me knowing that I don't think that society as of now is at a peak in compassion or acceptance. I'd rather that society would be a true haven of warmth and care for everybody. I truly believe it's okay to go with flow every now and then. but sometimes I have to step out of the water when I reach the shallow end.
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