Man is judged based on the color of his skin, the way he talks, the food he eats, the work he does, the friends he keeps, the acts that he is known by at a certain time, the belief he shares, the fear he feels, and the unspoken sins he committed or are yet to commit.
He never truly gets a chance to be himself. The world pretty much chooses that for him. If not the people and things he trusts, it is all done my himself.
Everything in life happens according to some set out procedures and processes and for as long as we live, we never get wiser for what truly it is all about.
You are profiled by a choosing of yours and no matter what happens, it just seems to stand well with you.
Why? because, it doesn't look like a bad thing; after all we are all expected to live a life of conformity against our better judgement.
Well, WELCOME TO THE PRISON OF PUBLIC OPINION.
Public opinion is what drives society and no matter the number of citizens with good education or knowledge of the matter at hand, there is that one instance of what the people will say.
We beat ourselves over what doesn't matter and if no one is giving us a pat on the back or a thumbs up, we resign to be failures and then fall into falling beautifully.
The public lives out it's life through us.
We live like we own ourselves but in the actual sense, we are living based on a programming that has long ago happened and still happening.
Ask yourself this questions,
"Why you feel the need to get online and socialize despite all the very horrible news of violation of privacy going around?"
"Why are there those who have and then there are those who doesn't and may never have?"
"Why is the rich always in a position to earn more riches and the poor in that sorry state to stay poorer?"
"Why do we really concern ourselves with what people or society says about us?"
"Why does it matter what we are thought to be as against what and who we truly are?"
"Why are there so many unanswered questions and yet, we still find time to ask more?"
Sighs!
The prison of public opinion is way more secured, inescapable and unbreakable than Alcatraz built with the technology of the now.
We worry too much about what people say and when they have their time to judge, they cast stones so big we never truly recover from the wounds.
Free yourself and live life based on your terms.
I believe there is so much good in us and until we learn not to willingly walk into that self created prison, our opinion of ourselves may never count.