The Societal Paradox: A Compromise of Being Yourself and Being Part of a Group

The Societal Paradox: A Compromise of Being Yourself and Being Part of a Group

by Aldair Alarcon

We are told to be ourselves at a young age

But soon we realize that is a fictitious reality

For if not the term peer pressure would not exist

We may candidly insist on maintaining this true

Only that our advisors say the contrary when ineffective

Stay with the group and do what they do or go away

We foolishly think this is situational, but it will not go away

Unfounately, this will remain without regard of your age

Change is a cynical cell although it proves not to be ineffective

Affinities is what is gained although when most needed only you are reality

You are not like crooked planks to undergo true 

Living and not you feel like if you did not exist

Individuals are we and no collective brain does exist

These problems that looking afar will not make it go away

A preventable influence not a social dictate that needs to be true

An individual will not necessary be like wine and better with age

Lost in outdated stories like Don Quixote without a grasp of reality

Remedy to a lone heart by altering oneself is ineffective

Drunk with an allusion until sober will show ineffective

Like a rainbow's deceiving distance after a storm will exist

One time or another we succumbed to the austere reality

That with its apathetic claws will keep one close and away

Injuring one emotionally by coming out of the gloomily shade for an age

Perhaps, there is hope to enjoy the sunny disposition oh, so true

The reverse of shade is well, but exposure solely to the sun is not true

A necessarily balanced compromise is an efficiently ineffective

Do not reduce thee self to peer pressure known of young age

Live for yourself and not be a dodo that does not exist

No identity one vastly walks until oneself is dreadfully too away

Alas, perils complacency with false compensation of company alike Offred's reality

'Life is a stage' alright, but pleasing entirely an audience is not reality

Not a puppet or jester for anyone's amusement I will be true

Refrain from thee and put your self-damaging ways away

Stalking stagnant stigma stays, but I will be strong to make ineffective

Different, yet alike 'we saw the same sunset' today and everyday exist

Conformance to fill the absence until meeting others in a distant age

Preposterous is to declare peer pressure is ineffective

What matters is that in the end one's objective is to remain true

Ubiquitous this paradox with be until the end of earth's age