Break the mold.

We are a product of our environment. We are the clay and society is the mold. As we grow, our surroundings shape us into who we are as adults. Our parents, the education we get, and the media all determine who we will be as adults. The values and morals that we have are predetermined for us. Maybe they aren't exactly all in black and white, but they are definitely there in some shade of grey. We are not immune to the influences of the world.

Having that said, what if we were born in a world of solitude? What if everything just disappeared and we were left alone. I mean, as a baby you can't fend for yourself so you'd have to have someone to take care of you, but what if they weren't bias, they had no opinions. What if we just got the facts and we were left to decide everything on our own with no outside involvement? What kind of person would we become?

People always say "be yourself". But who are we really? We are the sedimentary rocks of society, adding pieces here and there, forming who we think we are. But that is not being an individual, which would require being unique and original, but being a mosaic of our environment.

If you stripped all those pieces away what would be left? Who we are is at the core of our being, without all the fancy, shiny, pieces we add, and before the opinions and beliefs of others are overloaded into us.

Sometimes I wish that I could just go to a place where there was no one, and I could just be left there. The world would be my canvas. There would be no one to judge me, and no one to influence who I became. I wonder if I would still be the same person that I am at this very moment. I don't think I would be, at all. I think that some of the effects from society could be reversed, and some of the marks that have been left could be erased, but I couldn't erase them all. Who would I be then? Who am I really? I wish I had been born and just given the facts so I could create my own, unique opinions on life.

Society has put a mask on me and who I am, or who I should have been from the beginning. Society has restricted us and not allowed us to expand to our full potential as human beings.

I believe we would be capable of so much more if there wasn't a mold we were supposed to fit into.

Are we like jello? "Let's mix up a batch of human and place it in the mold called 'society'".