the whole thing is in your mind

When will you realize we live on a round globe in the middle of nowhere and everywhere amongst millions of stars, particles and strange things beyond our ability to grasp? When will it cross your mind that all the things surrounding us on a daily basis are just made up nonsense we need to keep convincing ourselves that this all makes sense, that it's all natural. Nothing is natural; no habits, patterns or norms are natural. We need norms and expectations to keep order in our world, to make sense of what is too big for our brains to understand, but nothing is what it is naturally. We have created cultural stereotypes, languages, social norms, age-appropriateness and expected ways of living, to develop and to go about with the little instance we call life. Because it is exactly what it is, an instance. We are too big-headed to realize the life we live for an estimated 80 years or so is just an instance in the long run called eternity, and the little social norms and laws we've come up with are just to prevent chaos. Nothing is magically natural, it's being created and recreated by humans. Everything on planet earth is human creation and recreation, endless reproduction and invention.

"She behaves like a 12 year old, and she is nearly 30!". Who said we have to behave in a certain way at a certain age? We did. We decided. But, enters cultural difference: a 12 year old in one country might be working her butt off on a farm, while another one is playing with dolls and make up in a girly pink room in a western society. Who is the most natural? Who is the most age appropriate? Who decides? Nothing decides, because we are just little instances in a huge universe, like a blink and then we're gone and all the bullshit social expectations and norms seem pointless.

My point? Yes obey laws, we need order in the world, one shall not kill and so on and so forth, but cut the bullshit and do what makes you happy and not what society expects. Keep in mind that we are being fed images of how the life shall be lived every day, and it's all irrelevant. If we only get a blink and then we're gone, shouldn't that be appreciated? Do what makes sense for you, and then let others make sense of the world in their way. Dress in what the heck you want, eat what the heck you want and dream of what the heck you want. Because when you think about it this way, nothing makes sense anyway so you might as well have fun with it.