Your Own Revolution

How can people live their lives on behalf of others? Why do we have to follow rules and preconceived beliefs about the way we dress, the studies we have to make, the games we play and the way we act. The answer for me is obvious…We don’t have to! So why are we doing so?

One of the basic reasons of course is the culture in which we have raised. So let’s focus on this. If we have learned to eat vegetables all our lives, it is difficult to change. Also if we have learned to hate our neighbor, we will hate them even if he is a saint.  This is part of our cultural development and it is inevitable. This cultural influence together with the education that we have can lead us to put a threshold in our thoughts perspectives and in the end to our chances to live everything and to choose what is more suitable for us.

So, where does this culture and education come from? Mainly from our parents and our close society. The educational systems of course play also a huge role. But in the end is our parents and our friends that will put limits to our way of thinking and acting, that will force our attitude to a specific dimension. This dimension is one of the million others that exist. No one knows which is the best! And as far as I concern, there is no best one! As I mentioned before the goal is to find the most suitable for yourself and the one that will affect the others the least in terms of limiting their freedom. But what about your freedom? Is it a real one? Or is the freedom that your environment has imposed into your life? We are leading our lives with values, rules and standards that are not created by ourselves! They may be completely wrong but we do not care, being afraid of making the step outside of the common way of behaving.

This is where the title of this article starts to form a meaning. People need to break the chains of this small, homemade, externally created dictatorship they are living in. It is the first step of being independent, self-confident and above all free to choose how we trully want to live. Nothing is right without judgment, and if we are afraid to judge things we may end living a life without true meaning. We need to take the responsibility of all our acts, not being scared of failing so that we can get the most out of this life.

By starting your own revolution, you ignite the thinking process for the problems of the world.

C.