Mind of my Stroked Brain

I stopped studying biology after 10th. I hated it. I avoided it very much - I liked things with wires. During and after engineering, I was an engineer in my mind, I would avoid biology stuff. In recent times, after 3 decades, I have realised I actually enjoy it. Understanding various things about humans/ animals/ etc. I realised it was a combination of the subject delivery that had brought the aversion which I built on top of. I spent 3 decades avoiding something because I had behaved according to an image of myself I had created.  There are many such things which I have not done because it is not me or my type , because I think so or others have told me so. I also regularly come across tons of messages, memes, Quotes, etc. everyday. They come in many shapes and forms - essentially meaning - " I am like this only, take it or leave it". I think we are all born a clean slate.   As we grow, we acquire many things - skills, thinking, stuff, roles, etc. The image starts slowly for

We all tend to follow many customs, rituals, practices, etc. day to day. I would call them Socially acceptable behaviour. Most of them are not new. It has been so as a tradition for ages. When they were created, I reckon there was good reason. Most of them would not be reasonable anymore. Some of them might be relevant even now, except we don't know that reason. It is very understandable that everyone (irrespective of gender, religion,caste, etc) usually are compliant, and don't think of questioning it, because they have seen their parents, aunts and uncles, basically everyone around them following the same norms. They have grown up seeing it, so it is imbibed.  If someone wages a lone battle, they will most certainly become the outcasts, the misfits, the black sheep of the family basically. Many such things lead to anything from simply silly/stupid behaviour to low esteem to things with can be outright injustice. So what can someone do in such times? Simply follow the norm or