The Bubble Effect

 

“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for the truth; and truth rewarded me.”  -Simone de Beauvoir

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"If we stop sinking, Could we stand our ground? And through everything we’ve learned We’ve finally come to terms, We are the outsiders"

-Needtobreathe

I can't help but think about the bubble we live in.  I feel as if everyone in Holland is walking a thousand miles an hour and everything is in slow motion for me.  Do people understand that this culture we live in does not even remotely scratch the surface of the real world?  I become so incredibly upset at the lies we are fed while being in college and experiencing something that is the "greatest years of our life".  I begin to think about all of the wonderful opportunities we are missing when we seclude ourselves from the rest of society.  Where is the good in that?  I mean sure we build incredible resumes that will give us great opportunities in the future, but eventually that piece of paper will fade and be nothing more than a distant memory.  

My head spins as I think about all of the politics involved in trying to cover up a college that prides itself on proper etiquette and a certain moral code.  I just wish we could be real and come to the realization that we are not perfect.  That there is tragedy that happens and the students, faculty, and administration are NOT ok all the time.  I wanna be different.  Not because it is cool, hip, or trendy, but because I want to break free from what society has wanted to define me for 21 years.  I live in a society in which it is socially acceptable to defile and degrade women.  So much so that the words slut, whore, and bitch are taken so lightly that women begin to believe such accusations.  It kills me to think that we have reached such a low.  We live in a society in which being boring and the same is the norm and those who want to be unique and beautifully different are shunned.  When are we gonna wake up from this bubble we are immersed in?

I have become my own shade of claustrophobia.  I want to no longer be comfortable in this bubble in which I have been placed in.  I believe it is my duty as a man of God to push through the norms that society has placed on me and immerse myself in a way of living that is different.  Bubbles are not strong enough to last forever and it is my calling to break through and land among the outsiders.