The document discusses society's norms and standards hindering individuals from becoming their true selves. It argues that people should not conform to society's expectations but should instead follow their own path and define their own identity. It notes that being different from social norms is not a problem in itself, but can lead to isolation if not accepted. The document advocates breaking free from social boundaries to discover one's self and live authentically according to one's own beliefs and perspectives, even if they differ from what is usual or expected.
The document discusses society's norms and standards hindering individuals from becoming their true selves. It argues that people should not conform to society's expectations but should instead follow their own path and define their own identity. It notes that being different from social norms is not a problem in itself, but can lead to isolation if not accepted. The document advocates breaking free from social boundaries to discover one's self and live authentically according to one's own beliefs and perspectives, even if they differ from what is usual or expected.
The document discusses society's norms and standards hindering individuals from becoming their true selves. It argues that people should not conform to society's expectations but should instead follow their own path and define their own identity. It notes that being different from social norms is not a problem in itself, but can lead to isolation if not accepted. The document advocates breaking free from social boundaries to discover one's self and live authentically according to one's own beliefs and perspectives, even if they differ from what is usual or expected.
The document discusses society's norms and standards hindering individuals from becoming their true selves. It argues that people should not conform to society's expectations but should instead follow their own path and define their own identity. It notes that being different from social norms is not a problem in itself, but can lead to isolation if not accepted. The document advocates breaking free from social boundaries to discover one's self and live authentically according to one's own beliefs and perspectives, even if they differ from what is usual or expected.
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Lance Andrew N.
Lagman BSME 1-3
Waking Life
“I want to be the ruler of my life not a slave,” stated in the dead poet society. Human are a free being, choosing their own path. However, society’s norms hinders us in become a person who we want to be. We are the sailor of our life, but to become a captain we must learn to know how to sail, wherein we set our own standards for the reason that we have our own odyssey and our own self problem. For us to go beyond the norm, we must first encounter the death of our own material self. Waking thy life of our being is something we must achieve to remove ourselves from the colony we are in.
We are a people with a divergent mindset not as a person converging ourselves to
become a person the society wants us to be. We, ourselves are not a part of the ant colony that process on doing the same routine. Being different from the standard are not a trouble but it is an issue. It isn’t a trouble because we are not the only one who wants to escape the huge walls set by the norms. Life isn’t a competition with other people, finding who are the best and life isn’t a game of survival which destroys the life of the weakest but life is a search of our true self, leaving the materialistic or physical needs for us to obtain a true living. Being odd is a society’s issue, not because it destroys the harmonic system, but it destroys the sense of humanity and freedom. Once a person diverse from the usual norms it thus results to isolation, in which this issue finds an escape which is the death. In relation to this, the story of Kristel Tejada, a medical student from U.P. who unfortunately end her life because she couldn’t pay her tuition fee, wake the self being of each students that education is not a privilege but it is a right of a person. In this, we have a right to stand on our own opinion, we are not a kind of people who needed to dress up accordingly to the society idea of clothing. We have our own view of the world, we define our own self being, and also we have our own identity. We all must break this boundary because we exist because we have our own self essence and primarily we live to know our true self. We must trust our own believes even though they are odd for the whole, a striking quote on the movie. Being different isn’t wrong, we view our lives and perceive the things different from others. We must go for a path that we think it is right for our self not for others. It is true that we can deceive others, but from ourselves we can never escape the reality that we are all different. We shouldn’t be afraid accepting that we an odd thinkers and if that would happen we will live our lives from the fullest.
