In Conflict

There comes a time when individuals are tested. There arrives a moment when you are questioned about who you are. There is a time when you need to change, to improve your image to others. All these issues are wrapped under the guises of friendship, advice and doing something good.

The intention is noble, but it does put into question the individuality aspect. It is perhaps this starting point which causes friction between individual and society. What is the general acceptance and parameters laid out by society? What role and structure must the individual assume to fit society? Is the era of importance to the self well and truly over?

Society as a whole is a very vague concept. No one has a clear cut defination of what society truly is. With assimilation of several cultures, it is now become subjective. People that constitute the society themselves are caught in the crossroads between Micro culture and Macro culture. To add to the mixture, Individuality is at constant conflict within the self and outside.

The individual is crucial. Some may want to carve a niche for themselves, but a majority will shun who they are so that they can get acquanited with the broader society. It is at this point that the conscience comes into conflict. Should the individual shun his real personality and become some one who he is not? Many individuals are successful, but they come into conflict with several unknown factors of society.

In today's world, individuality is at a premium. The importance of the self is presumed to be indirectly Hedonistic. At the same time, it is wrapped under the cloak of Selfishness. Individuals become someone they cannot be at the behest of society. It is at this point that they lose direction in their life. The case in point here may be changing an individual's looks to become cool.

This aspect is widely contested. If it doesn't work out, it is problematic. Individuals and societies are so hypocritical that an ordinary person tends to lose out on both the aspects. Pre concieved notions are brought forward of a particular social aspect, and it turns out to be a no-win situation for the individual.

What is defined coolness? What is defined as acceptability? The answer to all of this is vague. The fact is society and individuals are vague creatures, and so we may have to satisfy ourselves with the saying, "You cannot satisfy them all". Small mistakes that individuals make in behavior are then taken up by others and create a stereotype.

Call this post childish or a blowhorn for individualism. The fact remains that Individuals are happy only when they are at peace with themselves. People can be cool in several ways, even if you are plain in appearance. You need not be boisterous, just simple to be cool. But, an individual claim and of society will be in conflict with the above. I guess this is what constitutes a kind of mini- stepping stone. Learning of life and its intricate death traps, and emerging unscathed, is the constant conflict till the grave.