Being Yourself: Realizing the World Around You

Being Yourself: Realizing the World Around You

            In this world, everyone is bound to disappoint someone else without even meaning to. Sometimes we will mess up, fall down, make mistakes, ask for a redo and never get one, etc. It’s these things that cause so many problems in life and make us less than who we are and who we could be. Have you ever once looked around and ever wondered what you are doing there in the first place?

“Well I’m at the Gym”

Why?

“To work out”

Why are you working out?

“To be fit”

Why do you need to be fit?

“So I’m not fat compared to everyone else”

Why do you feel fat compared to everyone else?

“Because they make me feel that way…”

            It’s these feelings that could happen in so many more situations than just that one such as makeup, medicines, sports, clubs, social groups, peer pressure, and so on. How many times have you done something for yourself and never once cared what your friends or the guy next to you would think of you? In most cases, the answer is almost always never. So many things in this world are because of someone else’s influence.

“Well I’m choosing my own college”

Who said you had to go to college?

“My high school…”

Exactly.

This whole world has got us set on a specific social order that has us run according to its schedule and its rules to promote peace and “prosperity”. Never once to we realize that we are following it blindly and fully trusting it will take us to where we want to go. Never taking the reins for ourselves and guiding our own stallion lives to where we would like them to be. Now I’m not saying anarchy and complete isolation from social order and government is a good thing at all. That would be horrendous. I am saying however, that we should break away from the norm and find our own paths. Some guidance along the way is definitely necessary but it’s okay for us to make mistakes and learn from them. After all, isn’t that what life is about? In schools the teachers give us a lesson, we learn from it, and we take a test over what we know. Life smacks a test right in our face and see how we do, from those tests we learn the lessons.

            For the shy people who are afraid to take the step away from order and follow your own road, I completely understand. I believe that’s what friends are for, providing knew challenges for you and getting you out of your comfort zone. I believe everyone will make it their on their own time and their own terms. For me, I would like to break away as soon as possible and see all the opportunities life holds for me that I would love to do and close my eyes to my own little oblivion. I want to immerse myself in the things that I love to do and never shy away from them because as long as it makes me happy, I don’t know where else I would rather be.

I love you all for reading and putting up with me and my ranting! Peace