Why are we all such mixed up creatures? Sometimes it hurts my brain to think about how complex and contradicting we all are. Our world has become an “all in” mindset, I think. Now I might skip around and not make any sense at some points.
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At so many different parts in history and throughout the ages, there have been rules set in society. Rules about fashion, manners, politics, gender can even put up on that list now. We had rules saying do’s and don’ts. It seemed so easy to follow in some periods yet now we speak about them with such horror and sadness. It is true, though, that some rules are absolutely atrocious. But that’s not the point in this article/story/thing. Nowadays anyone be wear, do, and even be whatever they want. You can go out stark naked in some places or wear almost anything to the point of being stark naked. You can say whatever you want, be as rude as you want and not many people will do anything. (There are limits and exceptions, obviously.) Even with gender now, no matter what you were born you can be anything. With how the medical field is advancing and changing you can add anything to or remove anything from yourself. Whether this is a great path for humanity is all our own opinions.
Now humans in general. We are the most confusing creatures at times. Never making any sense and contradicting ourselves all the time. Sometimes without even knowing it. We want to save the planet yet we would still be destroying it. We want to save wildlife yet the majority would be fine without us interfering with it in the first place. We work out to get a better body yet we indulge in food a bit more than we should. We sneak bits and pieces here and there. We give advice to others when we ourselves have no clue what we’re doing in our own lives.
Why? Because we’re all imperfect and no matter how many years pass, no matter how many times we all hear about what we can do better, what we can change, we just won’t. We’re all selfish. Maybe we’ll get better little by little, one at a time. We’re just all a little mixed up.
