True happiness is found in conformity.
I must admit, even sounds rather proverbial.
But then everyone conforms to social ideals so that we don't feel left out and feel that sense of belonging. Isn't it rather ironic that the only way we can achieve true happiness is through being exactly the same as everyone else?
The influential celebrity wears the latest fashion. Then everyone copies that person in order to 'look cool'. And then they all fit in and look exactly the same. Or there's peer pressure and alienation if you want to take a chance with the loners and misfits.
Gosh! Even schools want everyone to think exactly the same way, and give the same answer. Instead of teaching a dozen individuals, a class is a happy family of exactly the same people who are exactly the same in every way.
I'm certain it makes their life a lot easier.
Of course people and schools will say that they 'encourage' creativity in their students. In the end, to do well and get those high marks, you'll end up regurgitating the same answers that your teachers give you to get the top marks. Down under Oz, we've got VCE (Victoria, if you've never even heard of the place) and we're marked at the same standard for everyone. Since everyone's the same. We even share 98.5% of our DNA with chimpanzees.
What are we doing in a classroom, I wonder. Why are we being kept in a zoo being indoctrinated with unnatural behaviours we'd never learn in the wild.
I even wonder why creative writing is called that. Or why we're being TAUGHT what the imaginative landscape is. Hands off my mind. I certainly can't write about whatever's I manufacture in my brain on a piece of paper. No. I have to follow the prompt, relate to the book, relate to the text, blah.
I get a big fat zero. Guess I've found the answer to life the universe and everything.
It's 42.
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