Its a machine world!!.... or is it?

In today's world, we are filled everywhere with  machines around us. But it makes me wonder, are we machines too? Peppa likes to play with machines but I don't think he likes his machine, how got hurt by the machine!! :(

We read an except in class this week, Civil Disobedience. In the essay Thoreau expresses how the government is in control of everyone and their minds, but is what we blindly believe the government to be, always right? The essay addressed a major issue such as slavery and how all these white southerners all thought it was right and a normal thing to have slaves. But in reality this thought and mindset was so corrupted by the norms of society that we forget our humanitarian view on such brutal things.

I put this into context and relation in the community I am surrounded in today. I go to the school Troy High. Here in Troy High, everything is in its systematic order. This mindset and the belief that we have to fit in and compete with everyone around us, including our our own friends has reached so deep in that its inevitable now.

I walked into my freshman year having the rest of my 4 years all planned out, what classes, what clubs, what competitions, I had the next 1460 days of my life planned out on the first day of school! Why? So that I would be on the top of my game, no one would look down upon me to laugh at the classes I take or give them a chance to look down upon my smartness.

In the end what was it for? So that in front of everyone I was another smart girl who they could relate to. No matter what was said, everyone obviously has their dream college, out of state or in state. But the reason we go to high school is so that we can get into a good college and brag to all our friends and family friends about what an elite we are considered now. But are we really an elite? yeah everyone wants to get into the University of Michigan and are ready to sacrifice their all for it, but is it really worth it? In the process we break life lasting friendships and the small happiness we once found in every human why? Because of one goal. Because of one mindset. If I don't go to University of Michigan or a better college, my immigrant parents will look down on me, my relatives from a different country who have hopes of me in a better place them will be disappointed, I can't brag to my friends that I belong to the yellow and blue community. This is the mindset many of the people at Troy go through.

Thriving in a community filled with such diverse races and backgrounds, competition is bound to happen, but why can't it be a peaceful happy place where we all get along? Why are we like machines always listening to others orders in order to be in a better place than our peers? Why are we always seeking for success than our friends and can't be happy for them?

I thought about this for quite a long time. Just like how this man tried to convince others, what the government is doing for slavery is not right and this is like machine work. Aren't humans in daily life full of freedom to express the same but they choose to act this way instead?