Walking In Your Footsteps: Following the Crowd.

What has happened to independent thinking? We continue to walk down these heavily worn paths that lead to failure and immorality. So many follow the path without question, putting their trust in institutions, governments, social media, religion and others.

Following the mass has never gotten us any closer to truth, for truth needs to be discovered by the individual. It is a journey that is both richly rewarding and extremely dangerous. Dangerous you say?? Yes. When you break from the masses, they will turn against you and shun you for not following their predetermined way. You are required to comply.

We are expected to stay in line and not misbehave according to their “rules.”

Yet, this is how you know that you are on the right path. Following truth is always met with resistance. It is much easier to do what is easy and beneficial to the individual in that moment without thinking of any broader implications. Instead of weighing moral implications, it is easier to act according to self-pleasure and the path of least resistance. An individual can stand and watch an injustice or immoral act happen, knowing deep in his/her soul that it is wrong, but support it regardless. Even though, every fiber of their being cries out against it.

Avoid the conflict.

Avoid challenging people due to fear of being outcasted, disposed, or despised.

It is so much easier this way.

Go with the flow, dude. Just like Marlin’s friend, Crush, would say in Finding Nemo.

Here is where the challenge resides. A person must recognize the injustice and choose to move towards the truth instead, even under the threat of being questioned or cast out. Nobody can force you to accept things that are wrong. Do not succumb to the pressure to conform and accept what society determines to be “truth.” This includes institutions, government, social media, and even religious organizations.

Make your own footsteps. Feel the resistance in the ground instead of the matted-down trail of the masses. Flowers cannot grow and bloom on trampled soil. Only the weeds can grow there among the untruths.