We speak of opinions, choices, experiences and personal truths in a superficial manner. I’ve come to learn that most things we talk about and live out, we don’t truly completely understand.
It’s easy to say, each individual should leave as they wish, based on the fact that, everyone has free will and freedom, but do we really understand what that means?
How do we know that our chosen mode of conduct or lifestyle is the right way? It’s simple! We live it. Then watch it play out. Then we study its consequences and impact on others and on society.
The result will educate us on whether we’re truly enlightened or we’re simply ignorant by trying to please everyone and let everyone live as they wish.
While I understand that everyone’s different, however, like I stated above, how does your difference affect others? And we must involve others in the conversation. Even though we’re speaking about your rights and freedom, others must be included. Because you cannot live without actions. And actions are like ripples, they stretch outwardly. That is, they affect society which consist of other people.
What’s my point here?
Been a rebel isn’t a behavior or strategy that should be encouraged. It doesn’t help society. It’s a self-centered mindset. And if everyone, (experimentally), becomes a rebel, there’d be no society.
We have homes, family and society today because of people who were able to think about others and not only themselves.
Society isn’t held together by the rebels. But by people like you who are submissive. Keep the rules. And is considerate of others.
I wouldn’t advice the continued use of the word conformist. Being submissive and obedient doesn’t mean being a conformist. We obey the law not because we’re told, but because we see, (personally), the significance of obeying the law.
We see the good it does for the community, our homes and our values. We understand the monsters it keeps out. And see very clearly the dangers that could befall the whole.
So we obey.
It’s not being a conformist. Neither is it being weak or stupid.
It’s wisdom.
At the same time, that same wisdom demands to know when to tear down some walls that’s become a threat to growth and innovation. But we do so with deep understanding of our intentions, goals and the consequences involved.
And though the rebel may seem to do this, but it isn’t. Because a rebel’s action, is often not in regard to the advancement of the whole but the satisfaction of the self.
In closing, there’s nothing enticing about a rebel to an enlightened mind who sees the depth of both world, (that is, of the rebel and the conformist.)
