This was an article i wrote, thanks heaps for taking a look at it and writing your thoughts and feelings on it. its always good to see people actually taking the time to read articles and make thoughtful comments which are relevant to the subject at hand. Even looking at this particular article you can see someone commenting how great my photography is..... there are no photos in the article, lol.

but more to the point of the article, i think that we have been conditioned to follow the crowd and do what the social norms are regardless of how we feel, even when we know better it is easier to do as others do than to do as we wish. However, if we are congruent, authentic and autonomous we gain the ability to ignore such forms of peer pressure and we do as we please.... but it can be a difficult path at times as it can mean being forsaken and ostracized for these decisions.