2014-10-09

Superficial bitch.

it's been sometime i did any reflection and review of my soul-searching thoughts and i'm having quite the thing to write it down right now.

Sometimes i just wonder, are cliche conversations really superficial/ stereotypical? if not stereotypical, aren't they conventional. yet, don't we work on a general and simplified assumption because it is there, it is real and it is true?  I mean after all, many research papers and majors (well, for one, sociology thought I do not clearly know the entire subject of itself, and I do apologise if I have totally contradicted your major) focuses on what is stereotypical, what is the norm.

In my major, economics, we study trends we simplify thinks to follow a general graph or a rule. and these rules and understanding complies only because there are general consensus to it. after all, who is there to support what you write is approved either through the masses or a prestigious, well known individual, whom of course is famous because many people agree with him - ultimately a popularity contest. So because

Then comes the social aspect, many people like showing off on new media, thought catalog pages on what they feel, what makes them special unique, outstanding from the rest. but really, look deeper into these "uniqueness" and you would see it's because many people agree that they have that personality is what made it popular in the first place, what is agreeable to the public and so relatable to them. it isn't something special anymore - if everyone wanted to be special, don't you think it becomes a norm to want to feel special? It a demand, a need for attention, a social aspect of human lives to show someone that "hey, look, I am special [too - and i'm like the rest of you] you should establish a relationship with me"

I see many articles about introverts, horoscopes and zodiac, and I came to my own consensus that every part of each personality we are talked to by the article is just well conversed emotions. They're not something special to you, it's just something you feel to an extent and you agree with it. It is after all what is acceptable, specifically in the social aspect, and it is only acceptable because people have that general relation and idea to it. Perhaps what I would applaud the person who wrote such relatable topics so elaborately and conversely, but not that she is anyone unique. If you are so unique as a person, you'll probably be outcasted or condemned. Just look at people who have weird deformities or weird talents, they just kinda rejected as harsh as it sounds. Like the guy in the class who is a nerd or just freaking weird, he is really special you know that? but he is weird right, so you don't wanna talk to him. so are you really that unique? you're just socially accepted because you are just like someone else, perhaps cooler only because you something like someone else better. BUT, after all, what you did was to do what is conventional and made it conventionally "cooler"

thus, perhaps this is one way of looking at this innate inevitable aspect of humans and I like to think to myself this is yet a beauty in itself that we are so damn conventional and relatable. this is what makes us such social creatures and because everyone's talent to be so conventional, it makes us agreeable to live better in harmony and promote ideas to each other to improve on life as a while.

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