The Impact Of Social Conditioning

I remember a specific moment in grade nine. There i was, sitting in the cafeteria observing the people passing by as a girl wearing a green tutu and zebra striped t-shirt walked into my view. I thought to myself "what is this girl wearing? she looks rediculous, is anybody going to tell her how stupid she looks?". Seems pretty normal, right? Although it was a rude thought, it was mine and everybody has them at times, no biggie. Sure, you can think of it that way. For me on the other hand, this was the moment that would change my life. Shortly after the girl in the green tutu and zebra striped shirt passed, another thought crossed my mind. "Why on earth did i just think that...I don't even care about what that girl is wearing, she looks happy!". It was almost as if the thought had been created by someone else and placed directly into my skull, this was the moment i realized the impact of social conditioning. …show more content…
This was huge. Social conditioning is defined as "the socialogical process of training individuals in a society to respond in a manner generally approved by the society in general and peer groups within society". We are conditioned from the time we are only months old, late into adulthood. This is something that impacts everyone and can realistially become very dangerous. I started looking for it on a daily basis and with that began to notice the negative effects it had on me every day such as my desires, relationships, emotions and more . I was unwell because of this, and knew that i had to change