Food For Thought - Individuality

Society shapes us as individuals. But what does that mean when referring to the word “individual?” Hypocritical don’t you think? If we are individual we should be one person… someone who stands out amongst other “individuals,” or as some would say, unique. Yet society shapes this character that we must force ourselves to become.

Does this mean that a beautiful love does not exist? That feelings do not contribute to even a fraction of who we choose to be our significant other? We are strictly limited to that of what society approves of us? And so romance is killed by the restrictions society puts upon us. True love never stood a chance. Our only existence is to reproduce and provide the world with yet another generation of empty souled children who will live their lives for the same purpose that they were created. The cycle of nothing is a dreadful one. Yet, we still take it in stride. We’d rather be living in a world of nothingness than be nothing in the world. Of course, that is a reflection upon us on a macroscopic scale. We are friends, family, daughters, sons, and more. Each classification, just a label assigned to us by society to distinguish ourselves within its system. But then, does that make us individual? There are other brothers, sisters, daughters, and sons. We are all the same in the way that we want to be “different.” So are we even different at all? If not, then why does racism exist? What brings about prejudice? Aren’t we nothing more than a blur of the same “unique individual?” Why do some people have the right to judge other people? Why does society get to judge our love life, our friendship, our skin, our personalities? Why are we generalized into “categories” when we should all be just one group?

Not only racism, but any group. Why does prejudice against certain religions, sexualities, etc. exist?

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