NoNcOnFoRmIsT!!!

This is my blog, and everyone is supposed to read this, as in not supposed to, but then it will be on an open forum so… I expect that if I’m not as bad (as I think myself to be) people will read it.

What is a conformist? You can call him/her a sheep, a follower or a traditional person. Conforming to rules and regulations which are dictated first by parents, then schools, then university, then boss and if you’re an aware citizen and understand the procedures of the country you then start adhering to what the government has to say. And the saddest part of the story is, all these sheep have the nerve to call them “independent”. Why? Because they earn, they live alone and they do not have anyone who is supervising their daily routine. But the fact that everyday and each moment we are dictated by someone or the other. No one at all is independent. They cannot be. They are shackled down by, customs, culture (although it is not suppose to chain you… still) and many such things. Another misconception that people have that they are democratic. It is another tool to rule you. Well, me, who is lecturing so much about all these shackles and pinning down of yourself, I myself do not know which one will be a better way of living. Free trade? Yea… actually pretty good… but then experts say it has it's own problems and so does everything… so the point is why then to kowtow to any rule or prescription. I say go your own way. Just imagine if all men and women go their own way… how many new ways can be invented? But then there is catch there too… all these men and women who will be inventing these ways will motivate many others to join them in their way, again giving birth to conformism!

Damn! Is there no way out…

Again come to think of it… what am I? Am I not a conformist? I used to think that I am not.In your teens if you are referred to as a “rebel” and “independent” it does boost your morale and satiates your ego to an extent. Me being quite extrovert and outgoing, did hear such things quite often. I obviously had a different life from the rest of the girls of my age. I was in my basketball team, I was into sports, biking and lots of other stuff which were strange and ridiculous for other girls around me. So in that sense I was not a conformist. I despite of getting a decent grade (which could have enrolled me in a science course) took up humanities, because of the simple reason that I loved the subjects which I was going to read. After the higher secondary degree when all my friends were planning to take up their Graduation courses in metroes and colleges which had history of great students and teachers, I plan to take up a Literature course and study in Ranchi in St.Xavier’s. Finally choose Journalism as my career when all my peers are doing Management courses which will fetch them bundles of money and others all are Engineers. My intention is not to write an autobiography but just to point out a simple thing, it doesn’t matter whether you’re a conformist or not, what counts is whether you’re following the trend or doing what you think is right. The next debatable point is “so whoever did what you did was a non – conformist?” No! because many were forced to do things which I did with free will and pleasure.

It is all about free will, and choosing what is right for you. Everyone has that priviledge. Everyone is emancipated and indepndence is not a virtue it is a right. A right to mould your life as you want it to be. But then every right has a limitation, independence also has a limitation, and death limits it. Because you don’t get to decide that one thing, and have to bow down on front of that!