Chapter 219

For a moment his perception doesn't make sense to me. I find out that It actually makes sense, it makes sense enough for me to know that not everyone is satisfied with the status quo that they find themselves living. Not everyone is satisfied with the way society has simply told them what they can be and0 what they cannot.

What if I simply decide that I do not want to be second best to someone. Even if this is the twenty-first century, there's still the stereotype that exists in the minds of people, this stereotype that still persists in their minds about the differences between a male and a female. Can't we just see ourselves as people, individual people who might decide to do this today and simply decide to do another thing tomorrow, our life isn't set by anybody. My life isn't set by anyone.

I am not assigned as someone's operation object, I am not assigned to become an object in the eyes of anyone no matter what I want to wear or however I want to act. It shouldn't matter to anybody because I am as different from one person as I am different from the other.

I'm not saying that I will go out wearing provocative dresses or revealing clothes now, but what if one day I get up and I decide I want to start learning mechanics, what if one day I get up and I decide I want to take wrestling as an hobby. As Aron had said it would be absurd, but yet if is what I want to do, if I feel capable of doing it, why shouldn't I be able to do it.

That is exactly the sort of effect that society has decided to have on us, that is the effect that society on its own has on our minds. Only some who have dictated instead rules of what they want to become, only those who have enough strength to get out of it can be free from it, and even when you are free, you are considered an outcast and a rebel.

I doubt a woman who decides to take mechanics will ever find an husband easily. You simply become something weird, an oddity, and I feel sad in my heart. That is exactly how many people have been shackled by the chains of what we call societal expectations.

Exactly how many people have had to give up their dreams because they had to bend towards what society has prescribed for them. Even in schools, this has played out in it's own way.

The sciences are the male subjects, the arts are for the slightly lesser males and for females, while commercials is simply assigned for the females, even when it comes to terms of brain capacity, there is simply a stereotype for everything.

I'm guessing that the fact that some people stereotype men as stupid and unfeeling should be any right for them to be like that. I'm guessing that's just the way some people are.

Oakley arrives with a confused expression on her face and two plates of spaghetti and meatballs, with some smoothies in her hand, the way they almost topple over make me laugh as I rush up eagerly to get them from her.

She wears a confused expression seeing me and Aron together, and I simply smile and get to eating.