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Don't Let Society Dictate Your Life

Hey Guys!!!! Today, as I was walking back home in the morning, two nuns were rushing to work, one a senior and another a junior. They were wearing their official nun's dress and the senior had a hand bag and a carry bag and the junior a backpack using as it should be. She was not shy to carry it on her back. Nobody felt it odd that a nun is having a backpack on her back, but the senior was not comfortable with that. She forced the junior to take off the backpack (It was quite heavy) and offered to carry it for her in her hand and gave her the carry bag.  It was an eye opener to me, though the junior was comfortable with the way she took care of herself with that bag, the senior was making sure that the junior conducts herself as the society dictates. Its not weird, we all do that in our daily life, the question everyone asks before they do anything is, "what would people think?" And we direct our life according to the society's norms and also accordi