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Conformity (Photo credit: the|G|\u2122)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Why is it we often avoid the urges that we should be indulging, but end up instead succumbing to the urges that only get us in trouble?<\/p>\n

We hear stories all the time about people not having the strength to overcome urges to do drugs, drink themselves to death, or cheat on their significant other\u2026we fall into these sicknesses and some are never able to properly stop the urges. Other urges such as always walking the tightrope of mundane, day-after-day living isn\u2019t as deadly or bad as those mentioned above\u2026but it certainly isn\u2019t good either.<\/p>\n

When we have the urge to live life we don\u2019t allow ourselves to, most of us run back to the treadmill of monotony. For example, if I have the urge to throw caution to the wind and try living in Italy for a year, why don\u2019t I follow through with that? When I have the urge to not work on Tuesday and instead go to the beach with my wife and just sit in the sand all day\u2026I don\u2019t do that either. Why?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because we were \u201cpreprogrammed by the factory\u201d and our minds won\u2019t let us stray too far from the herd and when we do have the courage to break away something at some point typically triggers us back to the factory default settings. We can\u2019t completely escape all aspects of the \u2018default settings\u2019 but I think we can strive for more \u2018creative thinking\u2019 and \u2018creative doing\u2019 in our lives.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m sure some of you can come up with endless excuses as to why you live that same boring existence day to day\u2026but I call B.S. on every excuse you got. You\u2019re either in denial or so blinded by the default that you can\u2019t see clearly.<\/p>\n

Do you honestly think your purpose in life is to conform and not push the limits?<\/p>\n

Conformity breeds the same thinking, not new thinking; but as a society we make fun of those that have different ideas, different lifestyles, different clothes, and different hair which puts more pressure on you to conform. Stop making fun of creative, outside the box people and society can start cultivating non-conformity which can lead to new ideas and quite possibly to new creative solutions.<\/p>\n

All this comes back around to the original question about urges. It\u2019s almost easier to succumb to the urge of drugs and eventually disappear from the world and live under the bridge than it is to be strong and stray away from the herd and live that outside the box life.<\/p>\n

The herd contains so much power\u2026yet they\/ we don\u2019t use it to force our government to reform or to force an evolution in the education system. The herd uses that power simply to keep the others in the herd\u2026mindless. This herd of ours has the numbers to do anything we want yet conformity has delivered fear to our doorstep.<\/p>\n

We have choices\u2026conformity or non-conformity? Being you or simply being one of many? Finding your voice or allowing your voice to be blended in with a billion others? Fighting for your art or simply being that cubicle worker?<\/p>\n

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