Human life on this planet is an extremely complex concept, making it a difficult trend to observe and understand. Each person struggles for their own living: some looking for a source of money and food, others in search of the perfect family and friends. With completely unique personal goals, it seems that people should be walking down their own separate paths in life; but something is drawing them all together as one. This supernatural force is that of society. Society has some sort of unusual strength which influences people to do things that their own souls would not tell them to do. But more significantly, and perhaps disturbingly, society can turn an individual into a completely different person.
So what, or who, is this so-called "society?" Is he some sort of wizard or almighty being who just points his magical wand at humans and puts spells on them? No, no, that can't be it, although it can cause a typical teenage girl to wear a mini skirt instead of a baggy, raggedy pair of jeans. According to Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1998), society is defined as "the persons, collectively considered, who live in any region or at any period." So that means society is you and them and even me. Alas, society is everyone as a whole!.
It is astounding that each one of us, as a member of society, is still influenced and controlled by it. Society can be like a voice in the back of our minds, telling us to buy the expensive $60,000 Lexus LX470 vehicle rather than the more reasonable $13,000 Dodge Neon car. Yes, it is society that causes us to spend an extra $47,000 on our car. Society is that evil little parrot on our shoulder, nagging us in its squawky voice, to do what is "cool," and "better." Society is the dictionary that composes its own definitions of "cool," or "better." And, as a part of society, it seems to us that we must strive to meet, fit into, and be the best of, the criteria.
