Welcome, one and all, to my humble blog! My blog is called Confined by Conformities and it will be my general blog, where I blog about random stuff, ranging from debates, daily happenings, discussions, reviews and whatnot.
What does my blog name mean, you ask?
verb (used with object)
1.
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined herremarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts tofinishing the book.
2.
to shut or keep in; prevent from leaving a place because ofimprisonment, illness, discipline, etc.: For that offense hewas confined to quarters for 30 days.
con·form·i·ty
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n-fawr-mi-tee] 
Show IPAnoun, plural -ties.
1.
action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes,practices, etc.
The URL of this blog, Confined by Conformities generally refers to being shut down and kept in due to the prevailing social behaviour and norms.
In our world, trade is essential and knowledge is key, but ultimately, power means dominance - and with dominance comes anything and everything. We use money for trade, and we put our young into schools and institutes to educate them. We learn that with money, we can have power - to purchase, and that with knowledge, we can have power - to change. Of course, knowledge and money come hand in hand; you need to have complete information to make the right choices to earn; you need to have a rather lump sum of money to receive education beyond the tertiary level. And with the progress of the world economy, society is shaped by the conformities of the world.
As people become more affluent, and subsequently more wise and experienced, the means of furthering their respective qualities become easier and more achievable. The power that comes with money and knowledge would be too much to bear - and thus, the easiest form of power, knowledge, becomes highly sought after. As society begins to be shaped by the rising conformities that is education, more and more children and teenagers are put into educational institutes to 'secure their future', to such an extent that many are not enjoying their quest for knowledge, but just living their lives, and only that.
The conformations mutate, bearing its ugly face at society, which seems to be indifferent about it. Parents force their young to study, even though studying may not be in their best abilities. They are taught from young that good grades would get you a high paying salary, and bad grades would deem you as an unworthy child. Oh, what a world ours had become.
Whatever happened to differentiation? Whatever happened to living for happiness? Whatever happened to personal interests? Whatever happened to dreams?
And this is not the case only for knowledge. Many conformaties in life glare at us, but we, alone cannot act against it. Money is seen as omnipotent to many - and many risks limbs and lives for it. Victory is seen as superiority and dominance - and many play dirty and down under to achieve it. Knowledge is seen as the immediate ladder to success - and many force their way, by hook or by crook, to attain it. Personal beliefs are seen as better than others - and many fight, even sacrifice the innocent, to prove it.
These are the conformities in life, that confine us in our pathetic, miserable shell.
We need to break free, to find a life, to lead a life where we are truly happy. Why should we follow what others do? Can't we decide what makes us truly happy?
Even though man has found a way to do what we originally live to do: survive, we should not conform to society just because. What we should live for now, is for happiness. For why live on, if you're just miserable and feel like you're dying every single other day?
You think you doing GP?
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