The Average Man Is A Conformist Essay

Many of us today have lots of bad things that happen in our lives. Some people have horrific things that happen to them and the move on. Others may take and have small things happen to them. In this quote "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." -Colin Wilson, I think that Wilson is trying to say that there are times in our lives when that people have horrible things happen to them and there isn’t a whole lot that they can do about it, the person just takes it over and over, and never does a thing about it. I agree with this statement because I see it happening all the time. It actually happens to me. Many things are just left alone and people don’t bother to ask if the person is okay. Sometimes I see this is no one cares about the person. The people need to learn to stand up for themselves. Because if they don’t then they are doing to one day take their own lives if they don’t talk about it or …show more content…
Some can deal with these problems and others won’t be able to. People need to be able to stand up to these problems or have someone that will be there for them. It will make our lives and their lives better. I know that once I found someone to love me and be there for me all the time I feel so much stronger now I have there. But when I didn’t I felt like the world was coming down on me. With her I feel invincible. People like us need them. Taylor has had similar problems but I know in the end that we will always be there for each other. No matter what it is grieving or not. We all have problems every single one of us do rather it’s something small or big problems. "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain." -Colin Wilson. There are things that will happen in your life and you just have to deal with those things. Find a way to fix those problems or deal with those no matter