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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

What we lose if we tell the truth?


Social norms, what are they? They are intellectual traditions and methods we follow that greatly affect individual psychological dispositions. Social norms are the silent language of a society that holds human groups together in an embodiment of values and collective desires. This is the grammar of society that only a specified group may relay, understand and decode according to the dynamics of their expectations. Social norms greatly affect the behavior and responses of a person in a certain situation.


Norms specifies what is acceptable and what is not in a defined social group but definitely not a product of human design and planning. They are a cluster of self-fulfilling expectations that finds its way in a population who choose to uphold it and conform to it in a lot of self imposed conditions. Social norms are what we want to be and somehow along the way fail us when we want to take another road.

These are social constructs that gained life because people believes and clings to it and act accordingly as they understand it. And what do we get from expectations? If we are successful we get a lot of praise but if we aren’t we get what we call the “social snob” treatment. The sad fate of belonging to a group who denies failure and battles achievements is that we are identified based on the success or the failure of our making. We obtain or lose friends along the way. This is what we get if we tell the truth that we are indeed struggling for our existence.







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What do we lose if we tell the truth that we are struggling for survival? First we lose our friends and second we struggle to keep our identity. I am very much comfortable living in my virtual world. There are no restrictions to what you are no limitations to what you may become. In short there is simply no measure of what you do what you could do and how you have been doing. You are plainly accepted for being you. Still people come and go. So what’s the difference with the coming and going of people in the physical world? Just the treatment that is sometimes too frustrating.

I would encourage people to tell the truth of their situation and what they feel. No need to structure stories anymore for there is no need to backtrack and make cover ups. Just be who you are. It is important that you tell who you are regardless of what they think. Responses differ according to the kind of social norms they uphold. That could be tedious for friendship but I see it even stronger if it succeeded to create a bond. I am what I am, accept me or deny me but I am what I am! I would appreciate friends who would say what they truly feel and be plainly honest with their situations too stripped of any pretense. I appreciate people to be just them, simply them.


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