'Be Yourself'..... this has to be the biggest most nonsensical ludicrous bullshit motto ever invented by man. I mean, look at this way....have you ever realized that you are nothing but a product of a process that delivers millions of people like you every minute?? The minute u r born ur lifestyle is already decided for u.... U have absolutely no control over the clothes u wear or the language u speak or the beliefs u consider your own..... for god's sake u cant even decide ur own name!! The one thing that's gonna define you, that will set u apart or at the least should set u apart. U might be thinking, hey we can just change our name if we don't like it right?? Wrong. The problem is cud u ever go around telling the people around you to stop calling u wit that silly name and use the new one? The point I'm trying to make is that who we are is decided by our circumstances before we can even think straight about who we want to be. For example, if I were to take a baby in a strictly vegetarian family ( and I mean strictly) and put it in a family where meat is eaten every single meal.... don't u think that same baby after growing up would eat meat like it was second nature to him/her? On the other hand if the baby were to grow up in the same vegetarian family he/she would probably later say.... "Uff! Even the thought of meat makes me wanna puke! How can you eat that?"!!
The point I'm trying to make ( if your still awake that is) we have absolutely no hand in the kind of person we will become. We just end up adopting the beliefs and culture of the society around us. I am not saying that people don't enjoy having a ready-made identity thrust at them by the time they make it out of the womb... most people would say its better than being an orphan who doesn't know where he came from or where he belongs. Also some enlightened people might even say that you can always defy your circumstances, adopt any belief system you want or even make a new one and then you can be 'unique'. But honestly, the chances of that happening are so bleak that should you ever manage to do it, your uniqueness would only be glorified a hundred years after your dead and gone! All of man's greatest ideas came from people who defied their societal traditions or conventions.
How can anything unique come out of a world where money makes all the rules? If you ain't putting bread on the table, you ain't doing anything worthwhile, or so think the billions upon billions of people in developing countries. Can anyone even imagine what all those minds would think up if they had not to struggle for the basic needs? The mind is like a gateway, and to get across first you need to pay the toll. People are so busy scourging for this toll they have forgotten to ever cross that entrance to mental nirvana. True peace and happiness only lies in mental and physical satisfaction. Ask those hundreds of millions of people barely making ends meet what they would change and you'll see the truth. Then perhaps we would one day truly discover what mankind is capable of when each and every person becomes 'himself' and sets his mind free!
The point I'm trying to make ( if your still awake that is) we have absolutely no hand in the kind of person we will become. We just end up adopting the beliefs and culture of the society around us. I am not saying that people don't enjoy having a ready-made identity thrust at them by the time they make it out of the womb... most people would say its better than being an orphan who doesn't know where he came from or where he belongs. Also some enlightened people might even say that you can always defy your circumstances, adopt any belief system you want or even make a new one and then you can be 'unique'. But honestly, the chances of that happening are so bleak that should you ever manage to do it, your uniqueness would only be glorified a hundred years after your dead and gone! All of man's greatest ideas came from people who defied their societal traditions or conventions.
How can anything unique come out of a world where money makes all the rules? If you ain't putting bread on the table, you ain't doing anything worthwhile, or so think the billions upon billions of people in developing countries. Can anyone even imagine what all those minds would think up if they had not to struggle for the basic needs? The mind is like a gateway, and to get across first you need to pay the toll. People are so busy scourging for this toll they have forgotten to ever cross that entrance to mental nirvana. True peace and happiness only lies in mental and physical satisfaction. Ask those hundreds of millions of people barely making ends meet what they would change and you'll see the truth. Then perhaps we would one day truly discover what mankind is capable of when each and every person becomes 'himself' and sets his mind free!
