This blog is my venting outlet, and a place where I can discuss what interests or infuriates me. I believe each person is instilled with ideas that create an all-encompassing bias which is hard to break, and affects their ability to open themselves to the world. I am not without doubt that I myself am afflicted with unconscious biases, but I will try to break them and see past what I am experiencing for the purpose of this blog, and "self-making" as my American lit professor refers to as themes of numerous American works of the 19th century.
The theme of self making, as I have studied in the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the narrative of Frederick Douglass' life, and further prose readings such as Emerson and Thoreau, have threatened the very view of life I have been brought up to follow. The view, being that of a life lived to have success and happiness, but the ways in which I have been taught involve minimal equations to achieve that ideal of "happiness". What I have decided, from now on, even as I fulfil my obligations and participate in the role society has concocted for me, is to discover what I believe happiness to be, and how I myself shall achieve it.