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In one of the hundreds of times I sat down to analyze the world or the people around me which I must say always ends with a bit of disappointment। I started collecting memories of me and some of my friends talking about one common thing. It was not like we all sat down and shared our feelings and points of view ॥ No! It was a series of phone calls, outings and moments of deep contemplation, and they all led me to the fact that we were or are still being pushed so hardly inside a photo frame with a free copy of a picture of one big happy family or as we sometimes see in gift shops, a picture of a happy couple with a BIG, FAKE, ear to ear teeth revealing smile!

For a very long time may be my whole lifetime I tried to decode the energy coming to me from the people surrounding me, especially grown ups। Here is what I could come up with at the beginning. I think they are trying desperately to put in my mind some concepts by telling me you should be special, not like the other kids yet you must somehow fit in the stereotypes that we can handle. You should think outside the box, BUT stay inside the house while doing it!!

Then I start wondering why is it worth fighting for to them, that they even keep setting examples and making comparisons between their own kids and those who have seemingly or "actually" made it through living the stereotypical life, the so called normal people who are ridiculously happy living the free, easy to access copy of that ridiculously fake photo given or may be even served to them by their parents!

How come they prefer spending their time and energy trying to impose the ready made guaranteed pattern but not on trying to be realistic and reasonable which I think should be a part of their adulthood, how come they never check the world around them?! Its so clear now that their is no such thing as a perfect life। On the contrary, we see lots of divorced people, people with addiction problems, and people drowning in their debts as a result of being unable to sustain an extravagant lifestyle॥ I try to imagine the older generations' feelings of guilt when they see the impact of the things they said and done to the younger ones but I wake up to the ugly truth, I found out that the majority of them have easily embraced the free copies instead of believing in innovation, to the extent that they even think of creativity as expensive, dangerous and simply not worth working for, which leaves the rest who believe the opposite, devastated and almost constantly looking for appreciation from their families or even from the rest of the world.

Finally, I go back to the attempt at trying to understand their message and I humbly declare its as follows:

* Be Good. "By only acting as if you are, you really don't have to work that hard to become actually good."

* Be Religious. "By watching every single religious program and then you can mess up as much as you would like, only as long as you keep it in secret"

* Get Married. "So we get to attend your fancy wedding and practice showing off"

* NEVER Answer back. "But you can curse us when WE turn our backs"

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