“Discipline is the biggest barrier that kills creativity”

-Sharath Chandra.

When you were a kid, you were taught to get up on time, get ready by school time, and then go to school with the heavy bag on shoulders. There starts your becoming one in the herd of sheep fighting for survival.

The constant fear of being left out haunts the human mind that it puts a person in alignment with the rules laid down by society. A student who blindly obeys his teachers, an employee who over fears his/her boss has never done anything significant in the history of mankind. If a mind starts thinking, it gets a lot of questions. The inability to think or the fear of not finding answers keeps them in nutshells.

Have you ever wondered, if everyone is on the same path, how can we find different solutions to various problems existential? I have some questions as I have always thought about them.

1. Why do we need exams when education is the goal? Different people learn different things in different ways. How can one common exam test all individuals at once?

2. How can they ask students to choose their specialization at the age of 15? What knowledge will they have at that age about the world or about themselves?

3. Why do you train children to adjust for people? If adjustment is love, then love is an adjustment for you?

4. Why don’t you educate children about love, sex, and intercourse? You don’t know about them or you might be doing them wrong all your life. Is it?

5. Why do you scare children about Job? After thousands of years of civilization, hundreds of years of industrial revolution, and decades of technological revolution, a man still needs to fear just survival? What is fucking progress that?

Any system that doesn’t accommodate all kinds of different people ends up elevating the minority and suppressing the majority. Those minority is called successful and the majority is named failures. When everyone takes a different path, nobody is a success, nobody is a failure, everyone can celebrate their existence.

I am a Rebel. I respect conventional people because I like diversity in society. But if anyone says everybody should be according to set guidelines, I would have to prove them wrong by breaking all the rules. Because you won’t get anything new from a cloned set of zombies. If you grow paddy in 100 acres, how can you expect some chilli, some wheat, and some groundnut?

Set rules for yourselves. Break them when needed. Your discipline should be volatile for your creativity to be versatile.