You do not have to be always as your culture expects you to be. If you are, and feel an inability to be otherwise; you are indeed a follower, one of a flock who allows others to determine his course.
Leading your own life involves flexibility and repeated personal assessments of how well the rule works at a particular present moment. True, it's often easier to follow, to blindly do as you're told, but once you recognize that the law is there to serve you, not to make you a servant, you can begin to eliminate that musterbation behavior.
If you're going to learn to resist enculturation, you'll have to become a shrugger. Others will still choose to obey even if it hurts them, and you will have to learn to allow them their choice. No anger, only your own convictions.
Leading your own life involves flexibility and repeated personal assessments of how well the rule works at a particular present moment. True, it's often easier to follow, to blindly do as you're told, but once you recognize that the law is there to serve you, not to make you a servant, you can begin to eliminate that musterbation behavior.
If you're going to learn to resist enculturation, you'll have to become a shrugger. Others will still choose to obey even if it hurts them, and you will have to learn to allow them their choice. No anger, only your own convictions.
( Wayne W. Dyer )
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