YOUNG VOICE
Deviants
The wind rushed with an unusual chilly breeze and the horizon was filled with mist. As I passed through a corridor, silhouettes silently greeted me and I aimed my flashlight on them. I gulped and saw that every shadow there showed the same face, figure and freezing stare. I turned to my left and saw my reflection at a broken mirror. I looked just like them, too.
If I were a scriptwriter of a suspense flick, I think I was doing a marvelous job. But, this is just one of my nightmares that woke me at 2 in the morning. I caught my breath and told myself that it would be the last creepy movie I'll watch.
Since then, I wondered how things will go if everybody are alike. That's totally creepy.
Deviances make our world less common. Some claim that deviants are norm breakers who are abound these days. All of us seem to have our definition of deviance. What may be appropriate for you can be tolerable for me. But there are some who are just plain deviants. Like hookers who stand along sidewalks waiting for men to pick them up. Like men who isolate themselves in a room, smoking pot until they forget their problems.
For our project in Society and Culture, we were asked to make a case study about prostitutes and addicts.
That's how we encountered two addicts. We call them Mr. Shades 1 and 2. They shared the reasons why they got into drugs. They said they had too much freedom, too much love from their parents, more than enough allowance, peer pressure and the influence of media, among others. They started when they were young. Due to a lack in confidence, they depended on the power of drugs to "up" them. People worshipped them.
But the after effects were not so good. They had fits of schizophrenia. Sometimes, they think someone was chasing, so they just go running.
What made me wonder was "How come society won't accept the existence of these deviants?"
I'm not saying we should be like the prostitutes and addicts. My point is, I don't want everyone to be the same. Differences actually unite and create social solidarity.
We have our differences and little deviances, without which we'll all be stuck in a society of twins and triplets. They have their function in society. If these deviants shall be exterminated from the world, what will become of the social workers and the policemen? Their worth will not be put into effect if they have no one to catch, put in jail, rehabilitate or simply use their handcuffs for, right? And, I guess the marijuana industry shall skyrocket towards the black hole of bankruptcy. As we continue to deny them and send them to the realm of normlessness, we just help in perpetuating the cycle of violence. To be against and to know the disadvantages of deviance is noble. To revive the broken ones and rejuvenate their dignity is the work of a humane man.
We have our own deviances, each and every one of us. For someone to deny the fact and claim he is so normal, then I'm sorry, you are not human. I actually don't dream of utopia, or what sociologists call the perfect society. I don't want the world to be too perfect, where everything is too clean and too organized. I don't want my dream to be real, it is first and foremost a nightmare. The society we have today is far from good, but it is balanced and surviving.
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