Conformity Doesn T Like Other People

Whether we like it or not society has taken a huge role in our daily lives. We might not notice it, but it does, in direct and indirect ways throughout our day. How you may ask? Margaret Drabble points out that, “Our desire to conform is greater than our respect for objective facts” which is something that I fully agree on. In other words, I believe that we all as humans want to be like everyone else, even when reality suggests that we shouldn't or we aren't like other people in society. Conformity has become a habit that people in this age easily fall into throughout the years without even knowing it.

Just like everyone else I have have also fallen into the conformity a couple times in my teenage years. Many of those experiences I didn't feel like myself and I knew I wasn't, but I still persisted in trying to be like that one popular girl, or the girl that everyone liked. I knew I could never be like those people because I was someone completely different and I realized that in falling into that conformity I blocked out my own self. By trying to act like someone I wasn't I …show more content…
This is hard concept to discuss due to the fact that conformity is something that we have all possibly fallen into throughout our lives. Something that is difficult about getting out of the habit of being conform with things, would be that you have to take the risk of being independent and different. Although society has made it quite difficult for some people to get out of their conformity zone, it is something possible and many people have been recognized for doing that. Personally I believe that morals should come into place and we should do what we think is right, and be who we want to be. Whether that being that you follow everyone else in society or become a unique and independent person who embraces all the qualities as well as defects that they