Monotony

While driving in my friend's car on my way back home, I wondered why I could not come up with anything creative and out of the box as easily as I used to, few years back. And then I realized, we're all hibernating in monotony.
Now real life seems to have no appeal, because everywhere I go, everything I do, I see the same things happening over and over again.
Same kind of music blasting though the cars that pass me by. Same kind of movies repeating the clichéd drama and action sequences. Same kind of photographs. Same poses. Same restaurants. Same choices. Same problems. Same reactions to those problems.
When did we stop living and start hibernating instead?
It's only once in a while that you meet someone who blows your mind away by just being their original self. Otherwise, everyone is trying so hard to be different, that everyone is ending up being the same.
"What do you get for pretending the danger's not real
Meek and obedient you follow the leader
Down well trodden corridors into the valley of steel
What a surprise!
A look of terminal shock in your eyes
Now things are really what they seem
No, this is no bad dream."
Humans have a tendency of following the crowd, going with the flow, adapting to changing trends. But, at this point where half the people I meet don't even have a clear explanation for why are they doing whatever they are doing at the moment, I think our generation might have gone a bit too far.
We need a reality check. Hibernation has an expiration date. And the date is now!

Dr. Nigam once said that “Media is awash with the idea that being stupid is cool.”
But now, we have reached that saturation point where the amount of effort that is being put into being cool is becoming stupid.
Time to let go of all the predefined notions of what’s acceptable and what’s not.
Time to blow away people’s minds by being our original selves.
Time to experiment.
Time for a reality check.