YSunday, October 21, 2007

A Deviant?

One day our GP teacher posed this question to us.

"Would you say that you deviate or conform to the general rules of society?"

I think she asked us this because it had something to do with our GP Exam AQ question, for which I found out I had got 1 mark out of a maximum 8. By the way, Promo Exam results are back, and I'm promoted. So I guess I achieved everything that was required of me.

At first, I was quite certain that I was quite the deviant. I mean, just look at me. I read TIME magazine. I buy a lot of headphones. I type in proper sentences when I sms.

However, I realised that I was just fooling myself. A deviant? Definitely not. For all the things that I think make me unique, there are thousands, possibly millions of other people who do the exact same things. Then there the things that I do, that are considered social norms. I wear clothes. I speak two commonly used languages. I go to school. In the big scheme of things, I'm as unremarkable as can be.

True deviants are, simply put, a bunch of freaks. We're talking about rapists, murderers, those kinds of people. They partake in strange activities that would disgust most ordinary folk. They are the kinds of people that are locked up in mental asylums and prisons, for the protection of the rest of society.

I guess in the end, it's all about the voice of the people. Society wields an immense power. What is the weight of one opinion, in the face of vast opposition? If what you do is deemed to be inappropriate by the masses, they are gonna punish you.

I'm glad that I'm so normal.

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