Personal Narrative: Nonconformity Day In My Life

My nonconformity day begun early, as I had to pass the exams on the courses with my group. During the whole week, I have been living with my grandmother, who cannot walk due to illness and with my cat, while parents have left for the seaside. Thus, at home I have little communication, while external word is full of it. As I am living in my parents’ house now, this week is poor for vivid communication and interactions.
When I woke up, I was alone in the house as usual, so it did not take much effort to remain uninfluenced. I have immediately recalled that that day was a non-conformity day, so I tried to behave as freely as possible. I turned the music on and was dancing instead of morning exercising, which made me feel free as nobody but cat was watching. After a shower I had to wash my teeth and found that parents have bough a new dentifrice as they disapprove the previous one. Instead of washing my teeth with fine dentifrice, I used it of a lower quality. I also did not like the previous dentifrice, and experience of washing my teeth with it made me think that sometimes society offers things of high quality, when nonconformity requires refusing to use them. I also though that intentional confronting to commonly accepted behaviors means high dependence on this society. Though Imhoff and Erb found that …show more content…
That is why I have eaten before I fed my cat: even when I am hangry, I fed my cat first because I am afraid to lose his love. Then I though that conformity is the cost of being loved in particular community, and to be nonconformist means readiness to be deprived of love and acceptance. The benefits of living authentically are pleasurable feelings after doing what you really want. However, individual needs love, care, acceptance and help to feel secure and harmonic: it is not worth comparing the pleasure of eating first with the love of one’s