7 billion
people on this planet. Each one of have our own goals and ambitions. All of us
have to work to get close to fulfilling them. Most of us are fortunate enough
to be middle class and have the opportunity to live with relative ease. We live
in big cities where there isn’t enough space to efficiently travel in cars. The
majority travel by foot, and with that many people living the same place as
you, thinking the same way as you, you’re bound to be part of a crowd that’s moving
in the same direction as you. Or is it the other way around? Are you moving in
the same direction as the crowd?
You’re probably in an indignant
state, repulsed by the notion of being accused of “following the buzzards”.
That is the crowd getting to you. It clouds your independent cognitive
functions, brainwashing you of all that you know is right. You are trained to
go along with whatever everyone does. Trends dictate your life. “Buy these
clothes.””Wear them like this.””Walk like this.””Live like this.” Do you not
see what is going on around you? If you start to recognize this superficiality,
and voice your opinion within the crowd, you will be shunned down to the curb.
The crowd has no feelings. The crowd has no moral consciousness. The crowd will
not acknowledge you for who you are. You cannot look for validation from the
crowd, you cannot think of the crowd as human.
You are beyond the crowd. You are an
individual. You make up the crowd, without you it cannot exist. So, never
submerge into the conformity that makes up a crowd; be yourself, and you will
raise a crowd. Be yourself, and you will be free. Be yourself, and you will
have lived.
The crowd is cruel; it is
unforgiving. That is because it has no heart; it lacks the very essence that
drives each and every one of us, drives us to newer heights each and every day.
