Roles in the world

As a teenager, you are constantly trying to find your role in the world, where it is you fit in. As an adult you are trying to work out the world, and how it is you managed it fit yourself in. As a woman you feel you must show how empowered you are and not allow men to overrule your life. As a man you feel you have to work hard to prove your a man and show off your strength to women. The world is a confusing place as you can tell.

We go to school, we work hard at school, we learn how to add, subtract, write a essay and edit a photograph. We go to university, learn how to drink efficient amounts of alcohol and not throw up, learn how to sleep all day and at some point learn the content to pass the three/four years. At no point do we learn how to actually face the world. At the end of university/A Levels they give you a final prom/ball then that’s it, they boot you out into the world.

As I said earlier the world is a confusing place. As a young person, fresh from being a student and having everything fit into place sitting to try and work out what your next move is, hardly the most easy thing to do. However, some things are easier than others. As a woman you know you could get a job in most female stereotypical roles, Avon lady, Body Shop Consultant, babysitter and carer. As a man, you know you could get a male stereotypical role, builder, driver, electrician and painter (pretty much most trades).

But as a woman, trying to get a job in a manual trade hardly easy, as a man trying to get a job in a typical female role hardly easy. Yet, there are the elite few who try and who manage it. For those people they are lucky, for those people its easy, for the rest of us who like playing it safe all the time, its not the same.

So, I guess people do have roles in the world, we all play our parts and do our bit to contribute to the world, and once we’ve found our role, we settle into it and sit there and enjoy it.