Contemporary life, full of rules and conditioning, has led to a complete standardization of people. Everyone behaves the same way, talks about the same things, dresses more or less the same, shares the same ambitions, and dreams the same dreams. In other words, individuality, those unique characteristics that define each person, have disappeared in a pragmatic and controlled world.
We live caged, always having to follow the standard, fit into predetermined norms as if we were all the same. Life becomes a large production line, where everyone must do the same things, at the same time, and at the same pace, making everyone identical, without any peculiarities that could distinguish one individual from another and, consequently, make them special.
We are trapped in superficial lives, becoming superficial beings, entirely uninteresting, even to ourselves. We always talk about the same things with everyone, hearing programmed responses that make us suitable for life in society. But what is the use of an adaptation that turns everyone into an army of completely identical and boring people, seeking economic success while their lives plunge into depression?
What is the point of fitting into a society that kills dreams because they simply do not fit the standard? A society that prefers to stage happiness rather than allow each person to find their own happiness. A society that imposes the obligation to smile all the time because weakness can never be shown. A society that removes intelligence from questions so that we are content with shallow answers. So, why conform?
Our blankets are already soaked with our midnight tears. Silent crying so that no one knows how much we are suffering. To maintain the facade that we are happy. To make lies sound like truth, while in reality, we don’t even have the will to get out of bed.
The worst part is that we prefer lives of silent despair to breaking the chains that imprison us and distance us from what screams inside us, desperately waiting to be heard, so that we can be ourselves at least once in our lives without worrying about pleasing others.
We are a generation afraid to take control of our own lives. And so, we have allowed others to be the protagonists of them. It takes courage to reclaim our lives and live according to what burns inside us, even if we are seen as crazy, because only then can we escape the depressions we find ourselves in. We need to shake the cages, as Alain de Botton says: “People only become really interesting when they start to shake the bars of their cages.” And above all, we need to be nonconformists because not fitting into a sick society is a virtue.
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