Rules

I know the rules. I have learned them just like you. But I still wish it were not so taboo for us to break them, at least every once in a while. For example, topics that are not appropriate for everyday conversation. But why not? I would bet that there is not a single person alive who follows every single rule. People pick and choose which ones they prefer to break. Some choose just a few. Some choose lots. Some choose ones that not many others have chosen, and for these people I believe it is the worst. We associate with others who have chosen to break the same rules that we have. Rules go in and out of fashion. There are certain rules that very few chose to break in the past, and now everyone is breaking those rules. And there are also rules, by which most abide now, that didn’t even exist before. There is something I read in an Eastern text recently. I cannot remember it exactly. It was something like “nothing real changes.” Well, rules change. I don’t think they’re real. So if I break a rule, and you tell me not to, and I ask you why, and you can’t give me a good answer, then I am probably going to scoff and go right on ahead. Unless the punishment is severe enough, then I will listen to your answer, and agree with you emphatically, and wait for you to turn your back and walk away, and then, once you are gone, then I will go right on ahead.