I have always believed that “I am the master of my soul”. I control what I want to become, my personality is my real emotions depicted in a beautiful way. I have found difficulties to conform to the prevailing attitudes and styles of my peers; well because I don’t want to conform, I want to shape my own attitude and My own style. I act as a nonconformist everyday life just keeps getting better for me.
Each day passes by and I keep on learning g, those lessons help me change myself in a way. I always strive for perfection; knowing it doesn’t exist. But there was this one day where I tried to be as everyone else, one lesson I learned that day, DON’T. Everyone in school was so interested in this new show “Yogi Yo”, so I went home and watched it. The next day was a nightmare, I saw myself engage in conversations I would never have! I felt just like any other tree in the “Jungle”. I felt like a-normal person, so dull and unattractive, despair was my title. All the students were talking about the same subject, everyone was asking the same questions and I was part of the Conformity.
From that day onward I thank god for making me realize how to become my own self I don’t want to be what other people want me to become, not what every program producer, songwriter, etc imagines his audience would be after viewing the media he has produced. I don’t want to lead this world into an age of equality, conformity, and unliveliness. If the is no variety in a certain society it would become meaningless; same old personalities, same old people, same old conversations!
One lesson I learned from that day was that I should be proud of who I am, I shouldn’t wish to become a conformist! I must shape my own personality; since then I have been utterly refusing to be a stereotype, and I always will. I hope this message would be a wakeup call to all of you who wish to become normal; you are leading our world into an era of downright dull societies.
- Riad Al-Soufi