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The enthusiasm post an awkward pause in a seemingly redundant conversation, the silent nods at someone preposterous, the gentle approval for nothing less than vanity just to stay on the same page, with someone we barely have spoken to before.

As desperate as all of it may seem, but we dare not disagree. We must find the same jokes amusing, appreciate the same attires, and dislike the same people or else we do not belong. And this transcends to the same aspirations, for the same institutions and aim for the same sector workplace. Anything besides, is our discourteousness or because we are miserably disturbed. 

A society that thrives on mere air-tight surveillance, perceptions have to be approved and accepted. They must undergo the litmus test before they can qualify for selfhood. Here everything is everybody’s business where space is an unheard phenomenon. It accounts for impudence or extreme exposure to American television, nothing is or can be a choice, and knowledge more often than not is futile.

And hence everything is absolute. Change is not for us, it’s as alien as orgasm.

Even in the modernistic appeal I often find the concept of this über-individualism hilarious, where our choice to replicate the trend, is the idea of ‘standing out’. Where we are in a constant search for association and within is our mundane search for the true ‘us’. We race to break out from the familiarity of homes to find a world that welcomes individualism and gradually attune to the homogenous newly acquired environment. Is it simply hegemonic or the clasps of boundless capitalistic social conditioning.

I was assured long ago as to how this has no definitive answers and how naïve of me is to even ponder over such ‘meaningless’ issues.

But really how difficult is to think for yourself?

Or just barely think for once.

Would we always need our textbook custodians, decisive decrees and a constitutional parchment to decide?For once I lets try to be able to look and not simply see, try to be able to listen and not just hear,and try to be able to fathom and not just accept.

I might seem naïve, or you simply might choose me to term as a modern day cynic. I leave that to you, you can think of me as either or none. That’s your choice and I that's how I wish to keep it.