DEAR SOCIETY

DEAR SOCIETY
Dear Society, we are a part of you. In fact we are the very being of your existence. We humans as the
make-up of you come up with all sorts of rules and norms and shove them up one another’s throat. I’m glad and not sorry to inform you dearest that despite how almost everyone lives today there are still some of us who do not conform to your norms! We are still a part of you but set our standards based on individual preferences.

Marriage and love are two beautiful things whose images you have tarnished. You have made it look like if I am not married at a particular age or in love with a member of the opposite sex, then I somehowhappen to have failed. Well, I’m sorry to disappoint you but marriage is not a yardstick for success in life and neither is love. Everyone has things lined up as they want but things do not always happen as planned. So next time you want to shove something up my throat as regards marriage remember that it is my choice not yours!

The slim beauty (or perfect-looking guy) or nah, hello!!! Whether I am slim or fat the fact is I am
beautiful in my own way regardless of the society’s impression. Now this is not to say that I should be fat and unhealthy but that I am confident in my skin and you cannot change that. If my weight poses health concerns I will work on that based on my own discretion and not your norms or standards. Slim doesn’t mean healthy just as having some flesh isn’t equal to unhealthy. Therefore, before you educate me onhow fat or slim I should or shouldn’t be make sure you know the terms related to my size at the particular time. And before you conclude too I might just be working on it so keep your norms to yourself and let us all be happy.

Rich or poor, my monetary status today doesn’t define my values in life. Thank you for making people see poor people as being poor in every aspect of their lives and the rich as being rich in every area of theirs too. The majority of us who make you up have successfully twisted the meaning of both words to suit our own purposes, feelings and world view. So, dear Society, my bank account doesn’t determine my values in life. We’re still all humans with just different pocket sizes.

In recent times, everyone seems to have a standard that has to be followed in order to be loved and
accepted by you. There are many other things that you have misrepresented which are being passed
from generation to generation. It will make us all happy if we each had our own standards and lived by them rather than being unhappy trying to live up to societal standards.

Dear Society, before you start dishing out rules, standards, and norms to everyone remember that every individual who makes you up has a right to choose his or hers. So rather than shoving yours up our throats, you can as well make use of them and we’ll make use of ours.