Most actions we call personal are actually shaped by society, from career choices to marriage, love, beauty standards, and work. Fear of society exists because the social voice lives inside the mind. True fearlessness begins when one questions inherited goals and acts from understanding, free will, and one’s own clarity.
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Originally published in The New Indian Express on 16 oct '21
It is a social action even though society does not appear to be present and the society is not physically present, but it is very much present - where? In the mind!
We give consideration to society because whatever we are doing is usually for the sake of society. What you call as your personal actions, the horrible fact is that even they are social actions.
We may think that when we are alone in our house, let's say, in the kitchen or in the study room, then what we are doing over there is a personal action, but it is not a personal action at all because it is still being dictated by the society.
There is a student who is in her study room preparing for an engineering entrance examination, but she is preparing only because of social pressure; now, is this preparation - when she is alone in her study - a personal action or a social action?
